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Fancy Quotes by Famous Authors

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists

1. “I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.”

Charles Baudelaire

Fancy’s Monsters, Nature’s Ugliness, Poetic Dissatisfaction, Monsters, Nature, Fancy

If I could only fancy myself clever it would be

2. “If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one’s inferiority – but it must be learned.”

Clever Fancy, Inferiority Content, Comfortable Lot, Fancy, Inferiority, Lot

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny

3. “And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fourpenny Cost, Abominable Fancies, Dear Price, Cost, Fancy, Regret

There is no science without fancy and no art without

4. “There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Science Art, Fact Fancy, Rational Creativity, Art, Fancy, Creativity

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy

5. “You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Murderer Style, Prose Fancy, Literary Style, Style, Fancy, Literary

Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to

6. “Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.”

Nature Dreams, Cherished Fancies, Nature, Dreams, Fancy, Cherish

Tell me where is fancy bred Or in the heart

7. “Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?”

William Shakespeare

Fancy, Heart, Head, Imagination, Curiosity