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Fancy Quotes - Page 14

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.390, e-artnow

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.350, Jazzybee Verlag

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

"Lisa Ling Helps Women Share Compassion Through Secrets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

"High-tech falsies fill the gap for women who don't want surgery" by Cynthia Robins, www.sfgate.com. December 21, 1995.

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.

"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.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

John Ramsay (1840). “Eglinton park meeting, and other poems”, p.32

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

John Marshall, Herbert Alan Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence and papers, January 1796-December 1798”, Chapel Hill, N.C : University of North Carolina Press

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Some thoughts concerning education. An examination of P. Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God. A discourse of miracles. Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony, first earl of Shaftesbury. Some familiar letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends”, p.95

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster