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Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me Picture Quote #1

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments Picture Quote #1

If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them Picture Quote #1

The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity Picture Quote #1

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven Picture Quote #1

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit Picture Quote #1

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Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results Picture Quote #1

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered Picture Quote #1

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way Picture Quote #1

I’m having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again! Picture Quote #1

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I’m so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work Picture Quote #1

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don’t want to admit they’re bored Picture Quote #1

Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man Picture Quote #1

How many merits one sees in those one likes! How many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes Picture Quote #1

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home Picture Quote #1

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We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality Picture Quote #1

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them Picture Quote #1

Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged... Thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in a hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp Picture Quote #1

I fancy the proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one Picture Quote #1

Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy Picture Quote #1

The flush of youth soon passes from the face, the spells of fancy from the mind depart; the form may lose its symmetry, its grace, but time can claim no victory over the heart Picture Quote #1

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Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar Picture Quote #1

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, our dreams repeat the wishes of the day Picture Quote #1

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one’s self more cunning than others Picture Quote #1

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense Picture Quote #1

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves Picture Quote #1

Half my life is full of sorrow, half of joy, still fresh and new; one of these lives is a fancy, but the other one is true Picture Quote #1

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Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me (Fancy Quotes) The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments (Fancy Quotes) If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them (Fancy Quotes) The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity (Fancy Quotes) O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven (Fancy Quotes) Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit (Fancy Quotes) Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results (Fancy Quotes) These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered (Fancy Quotes) I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way (Fancy Quotes) I’m having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again! (Fancy Quotes) I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I’m so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work (Fancy Quotes) The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be (Fancy Quotes) 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 (Fancy Quotes) 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 (Fancy Quotes) Leisure: A fancy word for people who don’t want to admit they’re bored (Fancy Quotes) Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man (Fancy Quotes) How many merits one sees in those one likes! How many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes (Fancy Quotes) You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home (Fancy Quotes) We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality (Fancy Quotes) Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them (Fancy Quotes) Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged... Thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in a hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp (Fancy Quotes) I fancy the proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one (Fancy Quotes) Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy (Fancy Quotes) The flush of youth soon passes from the face, the spells of fancy from the mind depart; the form may lose its symmetry, its grace, but time can claim no victory over the heart (Fancy Quotes) Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar (Fancy Quotes) In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, our dreams repeat the wishes of the day (Fancy Quotes) The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one’s self more cunning than others (Fancy Quotes) Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense (Fancy Quotes) Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves (Fancy Quotes) Half my life is full of sorrow, half of joy, still fresh and new; one of these lives is a fancy, but the other one is true (Fancy Quotes)

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