Famous quotes containing the word fancy:
“All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“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 (182595)
“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)