#fancy

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fancy #hard #must #necessity #ones

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

#environment #even #fancy #film #i

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

#black #black and white #create #doing #fancy

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

— Jeff Greenfield

#elizabeth #fancy #footwork #get #going

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

— Lafcadio Hearn

#chinese #fancy #heaven #luminous #milky

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#guitar #i #kind #licks #lot

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

— Horace

#anything #been #conceded #daring #fancy

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

#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#assume #come #designated #growth #hand

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. ↗

— William Banting

#adds #am #any #bulk #comfortable