Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“But that wasnt fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, theyre the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (19021971)
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”
—Sir John Suckling (16091642)