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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. – James Russell Lowell	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood. – Henrik Ibsen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason? – William Blake	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. – Baruch Spinoza	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. – Wilhelm von Humboldt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to 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, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If you really want to experience Paris the local way, don't waste your money at fancy restaurants or tourist spots. Instead, buy a €15 bottle of wine, some cheese, and, a baguette and have a picnic and people watch in Buttes Chaumont (in the 19th arrondissement.) – Robert Bonhomme	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror. – Von Humboldt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies. – Sir Thomas Browne	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves superior to every one else, and, not being sure of making good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists altogether. Thus they ?lay the flattering unction to their souls? that they could have said better things than others, or that the conversation was beneath them. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight. – Butler	added by anonymous 12 years ago
When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away." Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. – A.E. Houseman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. – John Dryden	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives. – John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery. – Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation. – Michel de Montaigne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy... – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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