Fancy

Famous quotes containing the word fancy:

“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”
—Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

“I went out alone
To sing a song or two,
My fancy on a man,
And you know who.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I fancy we are almost the only nation in the world who seem to think that composition comes by nature. The French attend to their own language, the Germans study theirs; but Englishmen do not seem to think it is worth their while.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)