Fancy surpasses beauty. [ Proverb ]
Fancy may kill or cure. [ Proverb ]
Felicity lies much in fancy. [ Proverb ]
Fancy kills and fancy cures. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Women do not fancy timid men. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
Fancy light from fancy caught. [ Tennyson ]
False fancy brings real misery. [ Schiller ]
In maiden meditation, fancy-free. [ William Shakespeare ]
So full of shapes is fancy.
That it alone is high fantastical. [ William Shakespeare ]
His fancy lost in pleasant dreams. [ Addison ]
Alas! that dreams are only dreams!
That fancy cannot give
A lasting beauty to those forms.
Which scarce a moment live! [ Rufus Dawes ]
Do not let fancy outrun your means. [ Franklin ]
He whom nature thus bereaves,
Is ever fancy's favourite child;
For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]
Woe to the youth whom fancy gains
Winning from reason's hand the reins. [ Scott ]
Not the poet in the moment
Fancy lightens on his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gies to me. [ Burns ]
Fancy may bolt bran and think it flour. [ Proverb ]
Who live on fancy, and can feed on air. [ Gay ]
We know that wealth well understood,
Hath frequent power of doing good;
Then fancy that the thing is done,
As if the power and will were one;
Thus oft the cheated crowd adore,
The thriving knaves that keep them poor. [ Gay ]
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. [ James Russell Lowell ]
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.
And these are of them. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fancy requires much, necessity but little. [ German Proverb ]
Pacing through the forest.
Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy. [ William Shakespeare ]
In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play.
Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day. [ Claudius ]
Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy. [ William Shakespeare ]
One of those passing rainbow dreams.
Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams
Paint on the fleeting mists that roll,
In trance or slumber, round the soul! [ Moore ]
Bright-eyed fancy, hovering over.
Scatters from her pictured urn.
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. [ Gray ]
The devious paths where wanton fancy leads. [ Rowe ]
Imagination is central; fancy, superficial. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
None but an author knows an author's cares,
Or fancy's fondness for the child she bears. [ Cowper ]
Every fancy you consult, consult your purse. [ Franklin ]
Who does not know the bent of woman's fancy? [ Spenser ]
Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense. [ Young ]
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. [ Pope ]
The flush of youth soon passes from the face,
The spells of fancy from the mind depart;
The form may lose its symmetry, its grace.
But time can claim no victory over the heart. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]
Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. [ Cowper ]
When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatched away. [ Pope ]
He alone can claim this name, who writes
With fancy high, and bold and daring flights. [ Horace ]
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Fancy tortures more people than does reality. [ Ouida ]
While Reason drew the plan, the Heart informed
The moral page and Fancy lent it grace. [ Thomson ]
Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. [ Goethe ]
Dreams where thought, in fancy's maze, runs mad. [ Young ]
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. [ Humboldt ]
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
We are never as happy, nor as unhappy, as we fancy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! [ Emerson ]
Ever let the fancy roam; pleasure never is at home. [ Keats ]
And otherwhyles with amorous delights
And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine.
Now singing sweetly to surprise her sprights,
Now making layes of love and lover's paine,
Bransles, ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine!
Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devys'd;
And thousands like which flowed in his braine,
With which he fed her fancy, and entys'd
To take to his new love, and leave her old despys'd. [ Spenser ]
Hope, withering, fled — and fancy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]
To hard necessity one's will and fancy (must) conform. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. [ Dr. Johnson ]
That which hath its value from fancy is not very valuable. [ Proverb ]
All impediments in fancy's course are motives of more fancy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. [ Fuller ]
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. [ Ruffini ]
He has a great fancy to marriage that goes to the devil for a wife. [ Proverb ]
A woman full of faith in the one she loves is but a novelist's fancy. [ Balzac ]
To give a reason for fancy, were to weigh the fire and measure the wind. [ Proverb ]
Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell of Fancy, my immortal sight. [ Milton ]
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, and science depend on it. [ Willmott ]
Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to mature years. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. [ Zimmermann ]
The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. [ Charron ]
How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! [ Stanislaus ]
My languid numbers have forgot to flow, and fancy sinks beneath a weight of woe. [ Pope ]
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can. [ Richter ]
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. [ Schiller ]
Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call. [ Sterne ]
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. [ Jean Paul ]
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. [ Bovee ]
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them. [ Lamartine ]
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. [ Goldsmith ]
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. [ Tennyson ]
Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. [ Chamfort ]
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. [ Bovee ]
We cannot fashion our children after our fancy. We must have them and love them as God has given them to us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. [ Ouida ]
Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. [ Jean Paul ]
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. [ Landor ]
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
Imagination is not thought, neither is fancy reflection; thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. [ Tupper ]
To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature. [ Lowell ]
We are too fond of our own will; we want to be doing what we fancy mighty things: but the great point is to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit. [ Cecil ]
Music, if only listened to, and not scientifically cultivated, gives too much play to the feelings and fancy; the difficulties of the art draw forth the whole energies of the soul. [ Richter ]
To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness. [ Fuller ]
I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. [ Dr. Johnson ]
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. [ South ]
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. [ Hume ]
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. [ Emerson ]
The poets fabulously fancied that the giants scaled heaven by heaping mountain upon mountain. What was their fancy is the gospel truth. If you would get to heaven you must climb thither by putting Mount Sion upon Mount Sinai. [ Bishop Hopkins ]
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy - its figures, its trees, or its palaces, - without a spot. [ Willmott ]
No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. [ Colton ]
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]
If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. [ Hume ]
Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pinetrees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. [ J. F. Boyes ]
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid. [ Willmott ]
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. [ Lowell ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]