Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“I went out alone
To sing a song or two,
My fancy on a man,
And you know who.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: “Give me that in sacrifice”—and we give it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)