| "We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." »Madame Swetchine |
| "It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions." »Voltaire |
| "'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around." »John W. Vessey, Jr. |
| "Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee |
| "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." »Julia Child |
| "I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war." »Golda Meir |
| "Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..." »William Shakespeare |
| "One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." »Jane Austen |
| "The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy." »Persian Proverb |
| "It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream." »Edgar Allan Poe |
| "So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed." »Quentin Crisp |
| "Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man." »William Shakespeare |
| "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 rises 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 Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come." »William Shakespeare |
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