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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. -- L.M. Montgomery
Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. -- L.M. Montgomery
Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. -- Walter de La Mare
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. -- Marquis de Sade
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce. -- Bernard Goldberg
No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me. -- Paloma Faith
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. -- Aristotle
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. -- Richard Le Gallienne
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. -- Thomas Merton
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. -- George Haven Putnam
I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating. -- Russell Tovey
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. -- Albert Richard Smith
The fancies of wine are authentic events. -- Italo Svevo
One fancies that what one loves cannot die. -- Eugenie de Guerin
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies. -- James F. Cooper
Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are. -- William Shakespeare
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour. -- Olivia Robertson
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? -- Greta Garbo
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. -- Rabindranath Tagore
A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies... -- Abraham Pais
Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks. -- Rick Riordan
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. -- Francois Fenelon
False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. -- Walter Raleigh
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. -- Victor Hugo
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous. -- Teresa Medeiros
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. -- William Osler
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. -- Epicurus
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are. -- William Shakespeare
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things. -- Epictetus
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence -- Richard Wilbur
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. -- John Milton
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies. -- Charles Kuralt
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. -- Thomas Jefferson
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. -- Thomas Hardy
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. -- William Wordsworth
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. -- James F. Cooper
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. -- Robert Breault
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. -- Marcus Aurelius
I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies. -- Brian Molko
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. -- Blaise Pascal
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. -- Michel de Montaigne
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. -- T. S. Eliot
My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head. -- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. -- Annie Besant
There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed. -- Terry Pratchett
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. -- George Bernard Shaw
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. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please. -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it. -- Horace Greeley
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it. -- Joseph Addison
There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet. -- Martin Luther
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit. -- Kit Williams
Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near. -- James Russell Lowell
A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in. -- Christina Stead
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition. -- Jean Cocteau
The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees. -- Kathe Koja
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies. -- Hermann Hesse
There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods? -- Jack London
Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism. -- Robert J. Flaherty

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