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• As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Class, California

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• We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.

  William Cowper Prime

  Memories, Men, Sea

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• I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Drama, Thinking, People

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• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Desire, Want

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.30

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• In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

  Shaun White

  Nice, Simple, Skins

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• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  Kate Winslet

  Sexy, Teens, Kind

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• Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Doors, Giving, Verbs

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.89, Delacorte Press

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• I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place this is.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hollies, Faces, Strange

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.302, Scholastic UK

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• Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Caring, Thinking, Essence

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cutting, Infatuation, Passing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Rocks, Honey, Cardigans

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn’t fancy her chances. “You don’t know James Carstairs. Don’t speak about him.” “Love him, do you?” Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. “But you love Will, too.” Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will’s affection for her, but the idea that what she felt for him in return was written across her face was too terrifying to contemplate.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, Ideas, Sound

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• It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.

  Helen Fielding

  Morning, Teenage, Lying

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Powerful, Men, Independence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.614, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?

  Marissa Meyer

  Light, Hands, Darkness

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• I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Believe

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.42, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

  James F. Cooper

  Time, Long, Imagination

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Time, Memories, Order

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions ; and Two Lay Sermons; I. The Statesman's Manual, II. Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All Waters”, p.144

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• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  A. P. Herbert

  Business, Government, Giving Money

  1931 'Too Much!'.

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• What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Business, Self, Talking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

  Louis L'Amour

  Change, Fighting, Growth

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.90, Bantam

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