Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“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)
“Im good at embroidery. Its what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.”
—Lillian Hellman (19051984)
“The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)