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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child! -- John Milton
Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs. -- Rosamund Pike
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. -- Charles Lamb
Fancy tortures more people than does reality -- Ouida
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose. -- Doug Larson
Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema. -- Albert Camus
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. -- William Cowper
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. -- Giovanni Ruffini
Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse! -- Walt Disney
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small. -- Rosamund Pike
Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here. -- Regina Doman
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide. -- Samuel Johnson
I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name. -- Reba McEntire
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. -- Thomas Gray
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. -- Isaac Watts
Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. -- William Cowper
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. -- Walter Savage Landor
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. -- Winston Churchill
True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good. -- Laozi
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever! -- Winston Churchill
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present -- Jean Paul
Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it? -- Jacqueline Winspear
Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, botherâ??-Scrubb probably has! -- C. S. Lewis
There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does. -- Helen Wills
About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us. -- Tim DeKay
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. -- Walter Scott
Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light. -- Philip Jose Farmer
It's Keun. He wants to be put on speaker. He's being weird.""Fancy that," said the Duke. "Next you'll tell me that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas. -- John Green
I fancy our chances at the European Championships. -- Frank Lampard
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. -- Colin Powell
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. -- Maria Edgeworth
If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit. -- Lee Ryan
I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals. -- Aby Rosen
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. -- Vladimir Nabokov
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. -- Edward E. Barnard
No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. -- Ray Davies
Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. -- Wolfgang Puck
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. -- Julia Child
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. -- Isambard K. Brunel
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. -- Joel Edgerton
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. -- Horace
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy. -- Terence Stamp
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. -- Jean Paul
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. -- Melinda Gates
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. -- Edmund Waller
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. -- Golda Meir
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
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. -- Oscar Wilde
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class. -- Robert Reich
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Why should we change onstage? 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. -- Cliff Burton
It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content. -- Maria Sharapova
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. -- Shirley Manson
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them. -- Paul Prudhomme
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes. -- Marie Corelli
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.' -- Count Basie
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator. -- Cheryl Hines
I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual. -- Zoe Kravitz
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. -- William Banting
I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect. -- Debi Mazar
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy. -- Wilfrid Laurier
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. -- John Mayer
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. -- Scott Adams
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. -- Barack Obama
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. -- Erin Morgenstern
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. -- Germaine Greer
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. -- Ernestine Rose
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. -- Shilpa Shetty
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. -- Horatio Nelson
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need. -- Francis Spufford
I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don't like to sit in fancy chairs. It's really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they're working for. -- Bobbi Brown
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William. -- Caitlin Moran
I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time. -- Gail Simmons
Most transvestites fancy girls. -- Eddie Izzard
In maiden meditation, fancy free. -- William Shakespeare
False fancy brings real misery. -- Friedrich Schiller
Each man has his fancy. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness. -- Elsa Maxwell
Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy. -- Julia Child
so full of shapes is fancy -- William Shakespeare
I don't live in a fancy neighborhood. -- Judah Friedlander
I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff. -- Simon Baker
I didn't fancy any of my teachers. -- Katie Price
Is love a fancy, or a feeling? -- Hartley Coleridge
World is suddener than we fancy it. -- Louis MacNeice
I just don't think men fancy me. -- Gail Porter
Do not let fancy outrun your means. -- Benjamin Franklin
A sense of justice is a noble fancy. -- Esaias Tegner
Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse. -- Benjamin Franklin
Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two. -- George Meredith
Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Compromise is just a fancy term for losing. -- Megan Smith
...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies... -- Cecelia Ahern
You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast -- Jon Bon Jovi
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -- William Shakespeare
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. -- Edward Young
A little of what you fancy does you good. -- Marie Lloyd
People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes. -- Jack Johnson
people always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions ... -- Geraldine Jewsbury
I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest. -- Matt Smith
I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be. -- Janet Reno
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy. -- Julie Benz
I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person. -- Lisa Ling
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy. -- Henry Fuseli
Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy. -- Donald Miller
I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life. -- Carlos Delgado
We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball. -- Lou Piniella
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then. -- Erica Jong
Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars? -- Emma Thompson
Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead? -- Audrey Niffenegger
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it. -- Joseph Joubert

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