Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“And long shall timorous fancy see
The painted chief, and pointed spear,
And Reasons self shall bow the knee
To shadows and delusions here.”
—Philip Freneau (17521832)
“I have tossed hours upon the tides of fever,
Upon the billows of my bood have ridden,
Where fish of fancy teem as neither river
Nor ocean spawns from India to Sweden.”
—Vassar Miller (b. 1924)
“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)