Fancy
The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
To love.
To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
Extravagant; above real value.
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Fancy Quotations
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
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
Charles Dickens
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
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
Colin Powell
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
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Charles Baudelaire
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace
Fancy Translations
fancy in Afrikaans is verbeeld hom
fancy in Danish is forestille
fancy in Dutch is bedenken, zich verbeelden
fancy in Finnish is uneksia
fancy in French is imaginer, songer
fancy in German is Laune, Phantasie
fancy in Latin is somnium
fancy in Portuguese is fantasia
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