Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“But Madame Bad Luck soberly comes
And stays—no fancy has she for flitting;”
—John Milton Hay (1838–1905)
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“But that wasn’t 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, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)