Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”
—Sir John Suckling (16091642)
“We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field, goes through every point of pumpkin history.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)