Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.
I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.
Is love a fancy, or a feeling?
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
Each man has his fancy.
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?
I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.