William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!"
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Fancy
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Alfred North Whitehead
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!"
Terry Pratchett
Author
"There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed."
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"I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know."
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"Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it."
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"I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox."
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"'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'."
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"Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema."
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"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."
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"Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'."
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"Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used"
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"Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage."
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"What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles."
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"It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool."
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"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."
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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
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"Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich."
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"I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers."
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"Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits."
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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
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"Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse."
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"In maiden meditation, fancy free."
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"so full of shapes is fancy"
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