Quotes by Fancy When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy. Henry Fuseli fancy sacrifice real I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. Helen Keller fancy past years Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. Henry Ward Beecher delight fancy sweet Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. Horace fancy distance pieces Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? Ian Mcewan fancy imagination writing The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. Horace fancy risk power It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. Isaac Barrow roving fancy way I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in. Isambard Kingdom Brunel engineering fancy design Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. Isaac Watts fancy age may The fancies of wine are authentic events. Italo Svevo fancy events wine 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 fancy cake bread I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. J. B. Priestley hierarchy fancy people Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. Jacques Barzun fancy expression looks I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. James Boswell fancy writing may Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies. James F. Cooper fancy humans hope Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. James F. Cooper woe fancy apathy I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee. James Longstreet fancy campaigns ideas Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain. Jan Karon fancy simplicity appreciate Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'. Jan Karon fancy appreciate years Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. James Russell Lowell crystals fancy emotion «23456789101112»