Quotes and Sayings About Fancy
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
-- Abraham Pais -
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 Repplier -
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 -
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 Austin -
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 -
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 Kendrick -
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 -
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 -
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
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 Piper -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
