The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
Todd Gitlin

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
Joan Didion

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Charles Reade

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
William Robertson Smith

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
Goldwin Smith

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Lafcadio Hearn

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Madame Swetchine

We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.
Roy Wood

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
Bernard Barton

Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
Hugh Grant

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
Oliver Kahn

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
Owen Hart

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
Mary Wollstonecraft