Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were. . . a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed. . It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
so full of shapes is fancy
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people. . . . The Japanese people are. . . simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.