Fancy Quotes

But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

William Shakespeare

While on my lonely couch I lie, I seldom feel myself alone, For fancy fills my dreaming eye With scenes and pleasures of its own. Then I may cherish at my breast An infant's form beloved and fair, May smile and soothe it into rest With all a Mother's fondest care.

Anne Bront

First melted off the hope of youth Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow servile insincere But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there

Emily Jane Bront

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day

W. H. Auden

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and canít get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance

Unknown

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

Voltaire

The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and canít get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance.

Joan Fontaine

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Jean Paul Richter

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear

Unknown

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Unknown

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

Gene Perret

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Colin Powell

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Oscar Wilde