#fancy

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#beauty #body #cage #gilt #infancy

This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied out drama of manners. Every man is in himself all humanity, and if he writes what occurs to him he succeeds better than if he copies, with the help of a magnifying glass, objects placed outside of him. ↗

— Théophile Gautier

#fancy #fantasy #reality #writing #art

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#having #house #i #moved #much

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#induced #infancy #trance

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#advise #after #attractive #because #become

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#enough #fabulous #fancy #fill #fulfilling

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles. ↗

— William Lilly

#fourth #had #i #i can #i do

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

#be nice #behave #behaved #came #characters

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. ↗

— George Mason

#extinguished #generous #human #human nature #infancy

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

#cold war #detente #english #fancy #french