Quotes About Fancy

Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope

I dream my life, and then l live in my dreams.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Hunt game? With pearl-handled revolvers?" I asked, incredulous. "Isn't that a bit…I dunno…fancy? Do I just run out into the forest with my pearl-handled revolvers, or do I invite some deer to a cocktail party and then gun them down?

Mary wasn't the only one who'd gone around the bend in the last few weeks. Or had Larry always been this way, determinedly unconscious of the deadly results of his "harmless" schemes? Maybe they were all like that, the presidents and chairmen and commanding generals who sat in their fancy offices and gave orders to "engage targets" or "cut the work force." They never saw the suffering, bleeding bodies those orders affected.

Dear as remember'd kisses after death,And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'dOn lips that are for others; deep as love,Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;O Death in Life, the days that are no more.

It is never difficult to credit strangers with the qualities and knowledge that oneself craves for, and no doubt Henriot's active fancy went busily to work.

One of the less savory notions of the early Church was that of the abominable fancy, the idea that part of the joy of the saved lay in contemplating the tortures of the damned.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

The cap that I wear on a particular day depends purely on my dress code.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

Pancakes are simple. They're diner food. They're what you make on a Sunday morning with the kids. Crepes are fancy. They're French-bistro food. They're what you make once a week after your Parisian vacation because you want to relive some pleasant memories.

If I moved to L.A., I wouldn't move to a ghetto neighborhood. I'd move to some posh, fancy place.

There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.

I have a crush on Cate Blanchett.

Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class.

The furniture looks like it was stolen from the lobby of a fancy hotel trying to pass itself off as folksy.

people trying to look like Eurotrash were sitting outside having various kinds of fancy coffee and looking at each other.

by anonymous accusations of infidelity?" I said. Susan smiled. "Fancy talk for a guy with an eighteen-inch neck," she said. "I been bopping a shrink," I said.

Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, someone's death, ... The grand Perhaps!

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

You can buy all sorts of expensive fancy waters that will supposedly give you more energy, make you smarter, and turn straw into gold. (Okay, I made up that last one, but frankly, I think it is about as likely to happen as the first two. Mostly the only thing those specialty waters do is magickally turn your money into someone else's money.)