Quotes About Fancy

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The Muse's friend, Tea, does our fancy aid; Repress those vapors which the head invade; And keeps that palace of the soul serene....

The music, once admitted to the soul, becomes also a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. Now at times, then, these phantoms of sound floated back upon her fancy; if gay, to call a smile from every dimple; if mournful, to throw a shade upon her brow, — to make her cease from her childishmirth, and sit apart and muse.

Tis a barbaric fancy, said Roxholm thoughtfully as he turned the stem of his glass, keeping his eyes fixed on it as though solving a problem for himself. A barbaric fancy that a woman needs a master. She who is strong enough is her own conqueror--as a man should be master of himself.

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

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

Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place.

Folly, however, has long been in the habit of taking a fancy to other people's houses, and once she's taken up residence, she's almost impossible to shift.

Both had the fantasy; neither had carried it out.

It's wrong, I know, but I play out this dance with him, exquisite and slow. I play it out in my head, because that is the only place it will ever happen.

Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way, And wiser men than I went worse astray.

My father, my father, and dost thou not hear The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear? 'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives; Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.

There is no true poet in whom fancy is not close akin to faith.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

To expect the truth from a woman is a beautiful mistake, and such beauty is one's fancy.

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.