Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“Lords lost Him His mockingbird,
His fancy warbler;
Satan sweet-talked her,
four bullets hushed her.
Who would have thought
shed end that way?”
—Robert Earl Hayden (19131980)
“I feel sure that he never had an impure fancy in his mind, or a faulty wish in his heart. His tenderness has surpassed the tenderness of woman; and yet when an occasion came for showing it, had all the spirit of a hero.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“I went out alone
To sing a song or two,
My fancy on a man,
And you know who.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)