Fancies Quotes

“Then on the River I saw the dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai, whose great prow lifted grey into the air above the River of Silence. Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets' fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people's hopes. Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men's fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.”

“Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.”

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

“Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.”

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”

“False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.”

“Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.”

“The Only God 'up there' is Unity of Everything, in Quintessence. Other fancies, gods and fairies are the nansy-pansies of simpletons, or is just plain-simple nonsense.”

“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.”