Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Jeff Greenfield

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

Jeff Greenfield

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

Melanie Lynskey

To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it.

Nicholas Rowe

Is she not more than painting can express,/ Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

Hugh Grant

I've been through hundreds of people working for us because I fancy them all - there is something wrong with me. I like that whole thing about being the boss.

We were passive on defense. We couldn't be physical when we needed to. Potential is a fancy word for having not done it.

Michel de Montaigne

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Mason Cooley

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

John Wooden

People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.

Lily Allen

I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.

Lillian Hellman

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

John Prescott

I'm not a fancy rapier man-more of a broadsword. Not for me the flesh wound. I prefer to take the head off.

Tomas Vokoun

I'm just trying to stop the puck. There's nothing fancy about it.

Samuel Johnson

Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.

I'll leave Basra.... I don't fancy being kidnapped again.

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

Hannah More

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

Brian Gionta

We've just got to keep plugging away. We're trying to be too fancy at times, passing up some shots that we should be taking.

Laura Bush

The thing I like about this fellow is he grew up on a farm, ... He doesn't have a lot of fancy airs.

Jane Powell

They're pretty simple. They don't have a lot of fancy gingerbread details. Everything is straight and flat and usually one-story.

Judd Nelson

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

John Calvin

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

Marquis de Sade

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Nicole Miller

Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

Louis MacNeice

World is suddener than we fancy it.

Matt Smith

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

Meg Cabot

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

Already my government was the government of national unity. They just found a fancy new name for that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.