Quotes About Fancy

Rosalie!' said I one evening. "'Your servant, sir?' "'You are not married?' She started a little. "'Oh! there is no lack of men if ever I take a fancy to be miserable!' she replied, laughing. She got over her agitation at once; for every woman, from the highest lady to the inn-servant inclusive, has a native presence of mind.

We have the misfortune of living in a country that marches with the unknown; and that is apt to make the fancy sick. Though we laugh at old songs and old yarns, nevertheless, they are the yarn with which we weave our picture of the world.

In fact . . ." Millie was saying as she reached into the little bag she always carried on her shoulder. She pulled out a small book. It was bound in black felt, with pink and blue feathers around the edges and Orphalese Oracle spelled out in fancy letters along the spine. "If I remember right, this year is even more special.

Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air.

Tis to create, and in creating live a being more intense, that we endow with form our fancy, gaining as we give the life we image, even as I do now.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.)

All dressed up in finery and pearls, We remember the time as little girls We giggled and curtsied and longed for the day, when our parties would be real and not just play.

I am so incredibly classy and swanky and posh and upscale and refined.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.

Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.

Red-heeled shoes and silk stockings clocked in black. Gray satin breeches with silver knee buckles. Snowy linen, with Brussels lace six inches deep at cuff and jabot. The coat, a masterpiece in heavy gray with blue satin cuffs and crested silver buttons, hung behind the door, awaiting its turn.

Everybody's a dreamer.

It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.

I like dressing up.

And speaking of messy things, did you know that watermelons have really fancy weddings? Well, they cantaloupe.

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done.

I loved playing a character that women fancied.

I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.

I like the luxurious, dressing-up aspect of fashion.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.