quotes about Fancy
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
-- Abraham PaisSource : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
-- Agnes RepplierSource : Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”
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I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.
-- Alan Jackson -
Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
-- Albert Camus -
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And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!
-- Alex Riley -
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
-- Alexander Pope -
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
-- Alfred AustinSource : "The Bridling of Pegasus: Prose Papers on Poetry". Book by Alfred Austin, 1910.
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I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.
-- Andrea Corr -
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Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.
-- Anna KendrickSource : Twitter post from Sep 24, 2012
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
-- Annie Dillard -
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
-- Aristotle -
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
-- Arsene Houssaye -
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
-- Barbara Mertz -
The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.
-- Barkhad Abdi -
Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
-- Bernard GoldbergSource : "Far Left Brands O'Reilly's Obama Interview Racist". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2011.
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When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
-- Beth Ditto -
Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.
-- Billie PiperSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
-- Callan McAuliffe -
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
-- Camille Paglia -
The “Vasco da Gama's era†ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.
-- Carlo M. Cipolla -
'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 -
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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 -
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I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Pre-mature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before.
-- Dave Attell -
Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.
-- David Ogilvy -
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 -
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American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
-- Diane Sawyer -
Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.
-- Doug Larson -
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
-- Edward E. Barnard -
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
-- Elizabeth GaskellSource : Elizabeth Gaskell (2014). “Life of Charlotte Bronte”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
-- Emma Thompson -
A sense of justice is a noble fancy.
-- Esaias TegnerSource : Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.79
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I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.
-- Eugene Levy -
One fancies that what one loves cannot die.
-- Eugenie de GuerinSource : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.312
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
-- Flavor Flav -
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
-- Florence Nightingale -
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He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
-- Frank Lampard -
They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.
-- Frank Scoblete -
I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.
-- Freddie Mercury -
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Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?
-- Gene Wilder -
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.
-- George Crabbe -
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Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
-- George du MaurierSource : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.337, tredition
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people always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions ...
-- Geraldine JewsburySource : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.161, ReadHowYouWant.com
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I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy
-- Gerry Mulligan -
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I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.
-- Glenn RoederSource : "Roeder balances ambition with discretion" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2006.
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When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.
-- Grace Llewellyn -
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
-- Hannah More -
Is love a fancy, or a feeling?
-- Hartley ColeridgeSource : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.11
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I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.
-- Henry Fuseli -
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
-- Henry FuseliSource : James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358
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Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
-- Horace -
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
-- Ian Mcewan -
It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
-- Isaac Barrow -
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
-- Isambard Kingdom Brunel -
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The fancies of wine are authentic events.
-- Italo SvevoSource : Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.231, Vintage
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
-- J. B. Priestley -
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
-- James BoswellSource : James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.43
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Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
-- James F. Cooper -
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 -
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.
-- Jan KaronSource : Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.224, Penguin
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Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain ...
-- Jan Karon -
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The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
-- Jeff Greenfield -
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
-- Jeff GreenfieldSource : "Blog, Day 3" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2004.
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The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
-- John Marshall -
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
-- John Milton -
By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.
-- John RamsaySource : John Ramsay (1840). “Eglinton park meeting, and other poems”, p.32
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
-- Joseph Joubert -
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A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
-- Judd Nelson -
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.
-- Julie Benz -
My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.
-- Junior Kimbrough -
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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 -
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
-- Kevin McCloud -
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.
-- Kurt LewinSource : Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
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I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus:
-- Laurence Sterne -
If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.
-- Lee Ryan -
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.
-- Lillian Hellman -
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!
-- Lilly PulitzerSource : "Lilly Pulitzer, designer of trademark tropical dresses, dies aged 81", www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2013.
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