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)
“It is engendred in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring fancys knell.
Ill begin itDing, dong, bell.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupinthe creative and the resolvent.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)