Fancy Quotes - Page 5

• Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Imagination, Fantasy

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• Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

  George Meredith

  Heart, Mean, Two

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.122, Wayne State University Press

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• So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Conform, Hard

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• Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

  Cliff Burton

  Change, Trying, Way

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• All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

  Samuel Richardson

  Excellence, May, Humans

  "Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady".

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• For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Years, Two

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• I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

  Ernestine Rose

  Reality, Romance, Stubborn

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

  Barry Gibb

  Night, Sound, Records

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• Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Two, Apples, Pie

  "StarChefs" Interview, www.starchefs.com. October 2011.

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• I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal

  Jennifer Connelly

  Growing Up, Thinking, Winning

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• If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.

  Lee Ryan

  Girl, Fit, Ifs

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• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Wings, Flight, Undecided

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

  Joan Didion

  Children, Order, Definitions

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 28, 2011

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• Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
  Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

  William Cowper

  Running, Home, Clock

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.234

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• I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Directors, Typecasting

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• For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sunday, Men, Eggs

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• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Imagination, Gorges

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Sweet, Boys

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.61, Lulu.com

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• Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beauty, Truth, Flower

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• Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Sick, Joy

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Wisdom, Men, Wisest Man

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• What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

  T. H. White

  Wise, Philosophy, Optimistic

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• A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
  act of turning a page.

  John Maeda

  Book, Skills, Pieces

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