| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. |
| Alexander Pope | When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. |
| James Russell Lowell | Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. |
| James Russell Lowell | Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. |
| John Bunyan | Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Fancy light from Fancy caught. |
| Sir Henry Taylor | We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand: For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. |
| Sir Walter Scott | Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. |
| William Cowper | While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. |
| William Cowper | Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. |
| William Mee | She's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, she's divine. |
| William Wordsworth | Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. |
| William Shakespeare | When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again Within a hour, and pacing through the forest, Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, Lo, what befell! |
| William Shakespeare | Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. |
| William Shakespeare | So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical. |
| William Shakespeare | Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep, If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! |
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