I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.
Janet Reno

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Maria Edgeworth

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'
Lee Ryan

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
Stephen Greenblatt

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
Edward E. Barnard

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Walter Lord

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.
John Motson

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
Ray Davies

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
David Knopfler

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
Colin Powell

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
Gerry Mulligan

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
Samuel Prout

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
Jeff Greenfield

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
David Hume

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
Jane Bryant Quinn