Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“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)
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)