Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“I fancy we are almost the only nation in the world who seem to think that composition comes by nature. The French attend to their own language, the Germans study theirs; but Englishmen do not seem to think it is worth their while.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (182595)
“But Madame Bad Luck soberly comes
And staysno fancy has she for flitting;”
—John Milton Hay (18381905)
“Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (17671835)