Quotes About Fancy

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether to the sole quest of her, like people who set out on a journey to see with their own eyes some city that they have always longed to visit, and imagine that they can taste in reality what has charmed their fancy.

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.

It is rather easy to complicate life with various, beautiful, fancy definitions than to live simple dignified life with no space for corrections.

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?"

But any idea of plainness is simply contrary to the fancy color that is red.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

and France, that fancy education you're so proud of.

Does it have a name? All of these fancy magical weapons usually have names." Bishop glared at her. "Yeah. I like to call it Goldie." "You're funny for an angel." "Not really. I'm just inspired at the moment.

It's a filthy world, Solomon. No one is clean. Living makes you dirty. I've met plenty of fancy people from IBJ and the BOJ who are from the best families, and they like to do some sick shit in bed. A lot of them do very bad things in business, but they don't get caught. Most of the ones I've fucked would steal if they had the chance. They're too scared to have any real ambition. Listen, Solomon, nothing will ever change here. Do you see that?

I've met plenty of fancy people. They're too scared to have any real ambition

Lucky settled on an NPR-type station that played jazz—not New Orleans–type jazz, but the other kind, you know, New York type or something where you get the feeling that everybody playing an instrument went to college someplace fancy and studied music until they just about ruined all their natural instincts.

Critics would tar feminism and spiritualism with the same brush, branding both movements as absurd flights of fancy an worse, contributors to the erosion of home and hearth.

Yeah, Jade was chasing me in a fancy limo—it was like a nightmare

I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.

Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-

No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,

If you can imagine it, you're halfway there

Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn't mind, I was feeling flush.