Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.”
—James Boswell (17401795)
“The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”
—Sir John Suckling (16091642)