| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. | | | | Fancy |
| | | In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it. Joseph Addison. | 1 |
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| Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all this is only fancy? If it is a dream, let me enjoy it. Joseph Addison. | 2 |
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| Nor are the pleasures which the brutal part of the creation enjoy subject to be lessened by the uneasiness which arises from fancy. Francis Atterbury. | 3 |
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| ’Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable, and when we come to be fancy-sick, there’s no cure. Roger L’Estrange. | 4 |
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| However strict a hand is to be kept upon all the desires of fancy, yet in recreation fancy must be permitted to speak. | 5 | | |
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