Quotes About Fancy

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

I have crushes on women all the time.

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

So quickly in youth do different and opposite trains of ideas and emotions succeed to each other; and so easy it is, by a timely exercise of reason and self-command, to prevent a fancy from becoming a passion.

Flowers under glass," Luke said. "Tassels. I am beginning to fancy this house.

I'm fond of her. Oh yeah? Fond are you? I've heard of fond. I expect old erection here - she pointed to the tube of DNA - was fond of his victim. Fond is a prude's word, Ben. You fancy her. That's what you say. You fancy Miss Library something painful. And who knows? She grinned, gap-toothed, like the Wife of Bath. Maybe she fancies you.

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"

His new stepsister, Darcy, stood in the door that went down to the second floor. Her hair was black and knotted and stringy, and, no surprise, she was wearing one of her dozens of princess dresses. This one had been pink and spangled at one point. Now it looked like something a zombie would wear to a fancy dress party.

If you fancy living in a despondent world of unending, delusional bullshit, I really can't recommend cocaine highly enough.

However strong in any poet may be the higher qualities of abstract thought or conceiving fancy, unless he can actually sympathise with those around him, he can never describe those around him. Any attempt to produce a likeness of what is not really liked by the person who is describing it, will end in the creation of what may be correct, but is not living—of what may be artistic, but is likewise artificial.

All the forces in the human soul, all the investigations of the mind, the artistic creations of the fancy, all refinements in the pursuit of pleasure even, are the gravitation of man's higher being towards the Ideal.

It was only an 'opeless fancy, It passed lika an Ipril dye, But a look an' a word an' the dreams they stirred They 'ave stolen my 'eart awye!' They sye that time 'eals all things, They sye you can always forget; But the smiles an' the tears across the years They twist my 'eart-strings yet!

A voice that to Dominica's fancy seemed to hold all the sunshine and the salt wind of fine days at sea smote her ears.

But I fancy I rather more sense than you give me credit for and also my dear I know you a trifle better than you do yourself. You will tell me that I am impertinent but so it is, little though you may think it.

You'd have to be uncommonly disguised to fancy I should take your wife to live with my grandmother if I'd any dishonourable intentions!' retorted Mr Ringwood.

Then he drew out a candlestick with six branches. It, too, was black. A large black pitcher came next, all covered with the same deep, fancy pattern that decorated the other pieces. Then Dr. Osgood pulled out a black box. A little black key hung on a black chain.

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

kind. It was the most singular, and almost the most touching and melancholy exile that fancy can imagine.—One of

But you have the nimble mind and quick fancy of youth, turning over from the thing that is half done to a further task beyond.

With young girls, nature seems to have in view what in the language of drama is called a striking effect as for a few years of her life, she is given a wealth of beauty and charm so that during those years she may capture the fancy of some man to such a degree that he takes care of her for the rest of her life.