Fancy Quotes - Page 5

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

  William Cowper

  Home, Imagination, Fantasy

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• Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

  Herman Melville

  Memories, Believe, Looks

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.460

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.

  Jane Porter

  Art, Grief, Color

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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• They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Machines, Wonderful

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• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  Varg Vikernes

  Real, Lying, Clothes

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• I'm not necessarily [into] pricey products, and I'm not recommending super-fancy stuff. It's more the consistency and the sunblock of it all, engaging in that process - I can be a little snobby about it.

  June Diane Raphael

  Consistency, Littles, Stuff

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

  David Ogilvy

  Friday, Creativity

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• Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

  Julia Child

  Art, Mean, Cooking

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.15, Knopf

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• To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Tails, Chosen

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