Fancy Quotes

• 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

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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  Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

  Jean Paul

  Time, Moon, Light

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• so full of shapes is fancy

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

  Janet Reno

  Personality, Accepting Reality

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• Where is fancy bred,
  in the heart or in the head?

  Gene Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

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• 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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Luck, Good Times

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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

  Dream, Sleep, Lethe

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.298

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• When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

  Oliver Kahn

  Journey, Looks, Next

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Monsters, Useless

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• 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

  Summer, Sunshine, Two

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• 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

  Charles Dickens

  Judging, Taste, Literature

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 34

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• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  Ian Hacking

  Future, Cutting, Done

  The Emergence of Probability Am Absent Family of Ideas (p. 3)

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• 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

  Understanding, Three, Kind

  David Hume (1826). “And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion”, p.530

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• I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Europe, Chance

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• 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

  War, Phrases, Use

  Newsweek, January 19, 1976.

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• 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

  Night, Order, Years

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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

  Dream, Future, Mean

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• 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

  Men, Fame, Drawbacks

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• 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

  Spring, Humble, Feelings

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• 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

  Names, Would Be, Cards

  Count Basie, Albert Murray (1985). “Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie”, Plume

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• A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

  Judd Nelson

  Watches, Needs, Unnecessary

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Fear, Fancy Cars, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

  John Lee Hooker

  Mean, Guitar Music, Play

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