Quotes of: Fancies Keyword

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

The King of the Dark Chamber

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

Lord of the Flies

Behind the shadows there lies defeat; Fancy the light where her smile greets.

Plumage

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

Jo Brand

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Laurie Colwin

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

Owen Hart

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

Oliver Markus

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

Karl Lagerfeld

I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.

Rita Ora

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

Simon Cowell

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.

Lilly Pulitzer

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Barton

Why should we change on stage? 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.

Clancy Brown

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.

David Hume

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.

Annette Bening

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Baruch Spinoza

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Samuel Johnson

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Edgar Allan Poe

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Charles Reade

I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.

Daniel Radcliffe

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

John Dryden