Fancy Quotes - Page 39

• When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.

  Glenn Beck

  Drinking, Broken Inside, People

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice this time of year” … “Is this true, Kami? Are you going out on a date?” Dad asked tragically. “Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Daughter, Dad, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.143, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Doors, Giving, Verbs

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.89, Delacorte Press

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• I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place this is.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hollies, Faces, Strange

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.302, Scholastic UK

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• Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Caring, Thinking, Essence

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cutting, Infatuation, Passing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Rocks, Honey, Cardigans

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn’t fancy her chances. “You don’t know James Carstairs. Don’t speak about him.” “Love him, do you?” Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. “But you love Will, too.” Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will’s affection for her, but the idea that what she felt for him in return was written across her face was too terrifying to contemplate.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, Ideas, Sound

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• It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.

  Helen Fielding

  Morning, Teenage, Lying

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Powerful, Men, Independence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.614, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?

  Marissa Meyer

  Light, Hands, Darkness

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• I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Believe

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.42, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

  James F. Cooper

  Time, Long, Imagination

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Time, Memories, Order

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions ; and Two Lay Sermons; I. The Statesman's Manual, II. Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All Waters”, p.144

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• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  A. P. Herbert

  Business, Government, Giving Money

  1931 'Too Much!'.

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• What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Business, Self, Talking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

  Louis L'Amour

  Change, Fighting, Growth

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.90, Bantam

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• Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

  Julia Child

  Food, Mean, Cooking

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• Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
  Less pleasing when possest;
  The tear forgot as soon as shed,
  The sunshine of the breast.

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Sunshine, Gay

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.16

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• O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
  Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
  Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
  We frisk away,
  Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
  To joy and play.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Morning, Play

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.18

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• Half my life is full of sorrow,
  Half of joy, still fresh and new;
  One of these lives is a fancy,
  But the other one is true.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Life, Joy, Sorrow

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.76

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• Not as all other women are
  Is she that to my soul is dear;
  Her glorious fancies come from far,
  Beneath the silver evening star,
  And yet her heart is ever near.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Stars, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.6

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