Fancy Quotes - Page 29

• Fancy tortures more people than does reality

  Ouida

  Reality, People, Doe

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• Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Love Is, Men

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• All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Motive, Courses, Impediments

  William Shakespeare (2001). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Latin, Hymns

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

  Philip Freneau

  Self, Long, Shadow

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.813, Library of Alexandria

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• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Humorous, Imagination

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• To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Reality, Attention

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.309

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• Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

  John Dryden

  Dream, Sleep, Reason

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.362

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• Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

  Charles Kingsley

  Hymns, Long, Singing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 456, 1895.

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• When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

  Hannah More

  Bears, Martyr, Provoking

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• We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.

  Charles Darwin

  Charles Darwin (1860). “Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy: Tenth thousand”, p.374

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• The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Music, Summer, Wind

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• I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

  Rebecca Loos

  Guy, Embarrassed, Fronts

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• I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

  Glenn Roeder

  Dancer

  "Roeder balances ambition with discretion" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2006.

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• Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

  Walt Disney

  World, Fame, Invention

  c.1966 Comment to his wife during his last illness. Quoted in Leonard Mosley Disney's World (1985).

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Cells

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

  Bayard Taylor

  Long, Childhood, Desire

  Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.1

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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Years, Cake, Sheep

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it - I was interested in things like that.

  David Salle

  Hair, Beverly Hills, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."

  Matthew Lillard

  Roots, People, Actors

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got to keep my options open.

  Gareth Gates

  Fighting, Thinking, Hot

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• The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.

  Alan Abelson

  Healthy, Boots, World

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• And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Strong, Home

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.20

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• Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

  St. Jerome

  Dying, Eternal

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.273, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Self, Feelings

  "Delphine". Book by Madame de Stael, 1802.

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