Fancy Quotes - Page 21

• Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Imagination, Mind

  John Owen (2001). “The Person of Christ”, p.159, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.

  William Benton Clulow

  Powerful, Ambition, Reality

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.253

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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

  Terry-Thomas

  Talking, Teeth, Gaps

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• The 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-plac'd statutes.

  John William Fletcher

  Kings, Book, Victory

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• My own lov'd light,
  That very soft and solemn spirit worships,
  That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine,
  Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power,
  Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair;
  The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy
  Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest
  The path of meeting or of parting love--
  Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts
  Thou smil'st in throned beauty!

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Fashion, Wind, Diversity

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• One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  One Love, Dies

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.312

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• I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Play, Mustache, Teeth

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• If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Lessons, Lasts

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• The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

  George Eliot

  Silly, Writing, People

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• Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Beautiful, Witty, Jewels

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.86

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• All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Degrees, Madness, Reason

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.390

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• Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

  John Milton

  Children, Sweetest

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Memories, Law

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• Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

  Billie Piper

  Dirty, Sleep, Men

  "Billie Wants a Woman", March 5, 2006.

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• I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.

  Keri Russell

  High Heels, Class, Clothes

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• A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

  Esaias Tegner

  Justice, Noble

  Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.79

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• everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

  Olivia Robertson

  Humor, Humour, Rare Things

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• My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.

  Christine Lakin

  Real, Night, Years

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• There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Religious, Humor

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• The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

  Hermann Goring

  Mean, Fancy Cars, Investing

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• I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Blood, France

  Roger Zelazny (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”

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• Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

  John Irving

  Childhood, Grows

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

  John Marshall

  Reality, Opera, Description

  John Marshall, Herbert Alan Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence and papers, January 1796-December 1798”, Chapel Hill, N.C : University of North Carolina Press

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• To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Important, Adjusting, Way

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