Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.
So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.
Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
so full of shapes is fancy
O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet
We must every one be a man of his own fancy.
I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.
In maiden meditation, fancy free.
If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.