Fancy Quotes - Page 9

If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

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.

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.

One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

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.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.