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To "seek inspiration" has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For
— Alexander Pushkin
With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.
— Brad Goreski
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
— Ivan Turgenev
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
— Lewis Carroll
I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.
— Analeigh Tipton
Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?
— Jacqueline Winspear
No fancy hair and clothes, no flaming capes. Just me. Looking like I could be headed for the woods. It calms me. - Katniss
— Suzanne Collins
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
— Robert Breault
children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they see they have less time
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.
— Thomas S. Power
Fancy hides a lot, while simple unapologetically puts it out there for everyone to see.
— Kim Holden
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
— James F. Cooper
His person and air were equal to what her fancy had ever drawn for the hero of a favourite story.
— Jane Austen
Empty threats are for dreamers. And I fancy myself a realist.
— Natalya Vorobyova
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.
— Craig Ferguson
I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
— William Butler Yeats
Jamie's eyes narrow. 'I ain't pulling over for no one.' he shoots back. 'But if you fancy a ride, hop in.
— Kevin Dutton
When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.
— Grace Llewellyn
Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
— Elsa Maxwell
Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.
— Jason Statham
A man who can set out in a cab for a fancy-dress ball and not get there is manifestly a poop of no common order.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
— Todd Gitlin
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
— Joseph Joubert
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
— George Gissing
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
— George Eliot
Who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.
— Anne Bronte
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is meat for one is not for anotherno accounting for fancy. — Abigail Adams
..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who can not be handled by his parents any more.
— Thabang Gideon Magaola
Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn't mind, I was feeling flush.
— Peter Heller
For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.
— Crystal Bowersox
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
— Regina Brett
He whom nature thus bereaves,Is ever fancy's favourite child;
For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. — Frances Sargent Osgood
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
— Matt Taibbi
Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
— Douglas Leone
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster ... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.
— Dennis Lehane
Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.
— Jeff Cooper
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
— Barton Gellman
I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
— Flavor Flav
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
Tolerance is just a fancy word for ignoring a fascist ideology. Acceptance is the only way.
— Jessica Jung
Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.
— Maggie Stiefvater
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
— Robert Breault
For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.
— Shirley Jackson
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.
— Yasujiro Ozu
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
— Robert Graves
Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash.
— Testy McTesterson
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
So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
— Charles Wheelan
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
— Russell Baker
It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.
— Lou Doillon
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
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
— Callan McAuliffe
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
— Vladimir Nabokov
...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...
— Cecelia Ahern
Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.
— Megan Smith
He has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He says it makes his thoughts brighter.
— G.K. Chesterton
I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
— Aarti Sequeira
We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!
— Sam Torrance
