Fancies Quotes

“Fancy light from Fancy caught.”

“The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.”

“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”

“She's all my fancy painted her,
She's lovely, she's divine.”

“So full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high fantastical.”

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“Pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.”

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“Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.”

“One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.”

“Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!”

“While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.”

“Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.”

“When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.”

“Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.”

“Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.”

“Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
Pity and woe! for such a mind
Is soft, contemplative, and kind.”

“Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engender'd in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.”

“We figure to ourselves
The thing we like, and then we build it up
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:
For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,
And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.”

“The difference is as great between
The optics seeing as the objects seen.
All manners take a tincture from our own;
Or come discolor'd through our passions shown;
Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,
Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.”