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“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.”
Dorothy Parker
“Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.”
Colin Powell
“In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
William Shakespeare
“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”
William Osler
“Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.”
William Allen White
“You know that Pepperidge Farm bread, that stuff is fancy. That stuff is wrapped twice. You open it, and then still ain't open. That's why I don't buy it, I don't need another step between me and toast.”
Mitch Hedberg
“'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.”
W. H. Auden
“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
“At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.”
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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