Fancy Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Hate, Rain, Holiday

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• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  Marie Corelli

  Summer, Sunshine, Two

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• 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

  Charles Dickens

  Judging, Taste, Literature

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 34

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Monsters, Useless

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• I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

  Kelly Preston

  Real, Way, Normal

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• I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

  Julie Benz

  Riding, Trails, Western

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• People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

  Gerry Mulligan

  People, Levels, Mulligans

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

  John Lyly

  Fire, Wind, Giving

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.87, Manchester University Press

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• I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

  Katie Price

  Teacher

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• We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Reality, Self, Suffering

  "Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations".

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• I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

  Terence Stamp

  Way, Enough, My Way

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• Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Perspective, Hell, Graves

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  Karel Reisz

  Movie, Inspiring, Expression

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• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Tea, Doe

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

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• Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crystals, Emotion, Sentiments

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.252

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Sugar, Salt

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• Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

  Owen Hart

  Stupid, Needs, Looks

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• I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

  James Longstreet

  Ideas, Campaigns, Brilliant

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• No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

  Ray Davies

  Penetrate

  Song: Fancy

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• Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

  Jeff Greenfield

  Prime, Shots, Footwork

  "Blog, Day 3" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2004.

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• American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

  Diane Sawyer

  Thinking, Idols, Passing

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• Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

  Walter Scott

  Winning, Hands, Mind

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.229

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• I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

  Kristi Noem

  Real, Law, Degrees

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• I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Funeral, My Own, Dies

  Maria Edgeworth (2005). “Tales and Novels”, p.52

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• I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Engineering, Design, Etc

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