Fancy Quotations | Page 6

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy a limitless succession of Universes. Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeeze them dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy way, on his pocket-handkerchief

Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't open. That's why I don't buy it. I don't need another step between me and toast.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

These huge reptiles, surrounded by the black lava, the leafless shrubs and large cacti, seemed to my fancy like some antediluvian animals. The few dull-colored birds cared no more for me than they did for the great tortoises.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!