Fancy Quotes

• You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

  Unknown

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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  Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

  Jean Paul

  Time, Moon, Light

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• so full of shapes is fancy

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes

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

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• In maiden meditation, fancy free.

  William Shakespeare

  Meditation, Maidens

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Where is fancy bred,
  in the heart or in the head?

  Gene Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

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

  William Cowper

  Home, Imagination, Fantasy

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• I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

  Janet Reno

  Personality, Accepting Reality

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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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• 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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• 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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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Heart, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Inspirational, Hype, Support

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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