Fancy Quotes
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
Francis Bacon
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
William Golding
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For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.
Wilfrid Sheed
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Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
Donald Miller
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A man goes to a fancy dress party dressed only in his Y-fronts. A woman comes up to him and says "What are you supposed to be?" The man says "A premature ejaculation." "What?" says the woman. The man explains "I've just come in my pants."
Tommy Cooper
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I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
P. G. Wodehouse
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One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.
Sandra Cisneros
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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
Oscar Wilde
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My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
Ben Affleck
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I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
Viola Davis
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All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.
William Shakespeare
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On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.
Sarah Fielding
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I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.
Lisa Ling
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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
Hart Crane
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Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
William Shakespeare
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I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.
Carlos Delgado
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Some days I fancy him, others I want to flush hid head down the toilet.
Edith Bowman
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The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.
Steve Hockensmith
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Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice this time of year” … “Is this true, Kami? Are you going out on a date?” Dad asked tragically. “Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.
Sarah Rees Brennan