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Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
— Marquis De Sade
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
No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
— Paloma Faith
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
— William Wordsworth
My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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
False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. — Walter Raleigh
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. — Walter Raleigh
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
— Teresa Medeiros
Our reasons are not prophets
When oft our fancies are. — William Shakespeare
When oft our fancies are. — William Shakespeare
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
He fancies himself as a collector. Really, he is a peasant.
— Torquil MacLeod
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
— James F. Cooper
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
— Blaise Pascal
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
— Thomas Hardy
He says no one can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
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
Everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.
— Olivia Robertson
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
Was she mad, with her fancies of shared destiny and the other half of her soul?
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
Poor people are subject to fancies - this is a provision of nature.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
— Charles Kuralt
I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies.
— Brian Molko
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
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
— John Milton
Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.
— Epicurus
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
— Thomas Jefferson
Here I was, rushing off to save my little brother from pirates, only to find that he fancies being a pirate himself!
— Sharon Kay Penman
Fancies are like shadows ... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
— L.M. Montgomery
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
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
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden
And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.
— Walter De La Mare
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
— Francois Fenelon
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
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
— Victor Hugo
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
— Marcus Aurelius
Due to not getting pumped regular, females take the oddest fancies, such as imagining they can think.
— Loretta Chase
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
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.
— William Shakespeare
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle.
[A] faith which does not believe what it fancies it believes[.]
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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
One fancies that what one loves cannot die.
— Eugenie De Guerin
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.
— Robert Breault
The fancies of wine are authentic events.
— Italo Svevo
Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.
— Albert Richard Smith
When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.
— Alex George
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence
— Richard Wilbur
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
— Bernard Goldberg
Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout
— Harper Lee
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
— James F. Cooper