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"It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions." »Voltaire
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"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." »Madame Swetchine
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"'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around." »John W. Vessey, Jr.
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"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee
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"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
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." »Julia Child
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"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." »Jane Austen
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"Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery." »Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine
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"All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight." »Butler
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"Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..." »William Shakespeare
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"Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind." »John Dryden
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"I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives." »John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
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"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
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"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
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"The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy." »Persian Proverb
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"There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial." »Charles Baudelaire
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"The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror." »Von Humboldt
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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves superior to every one else, and, not being sure of making good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists altogether. Thus they ?lay the flattering unction to their souls? that they could have said better things than others, or that the conversation was beneath them." »Hazlitt
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"When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me." »A.E. Houseman
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"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
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"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
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"We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable." »Goethe
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"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." »C. C. Colton
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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 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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