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Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.
shirley jackson— Dr. Montague
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
— 1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.
The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel like a different person, and in consequence write from a somewhat different angle. I have been told - by men who do not write - that this is all fanciful. This only means that they don't understand.
charles (writer) hamilton— Explaining why he used many different pseudonyms.
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles— Line 592. (Trachiniae)
Freud 's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.
ludwig wittgenstein— p. 55e (Culture and Value (1980))
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Ch. IV (Biographia Literaria (1817))
A fanciful and flowery and heated imagination beware of; because the things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Thy mind, O man! if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanse of eternity thou must commune with God.
smith, joseph, jr.— Joseph Fielding Smith (editor), Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 137
The fanciful notion still prevails among scholars that xenophobia is a global phenomenon identical in all societies beset by insecurity as a result of cultural crisis .
— Chengiah Rogers Ragaven, in Social Limits to Learning: Essays on the Archeology of Domination, Resistance, and Experience (01 January 2005, p.123
...a vision of daring and dainty loveliness, of story of rosy masonry and delicate overhanging balconies and latticed windows, soaring with tier after tier of fanciful architecture in a pyramidal form, a very mountain of airy and audacious beauty , through the thousdnad pierced screens and gilded arches of which the Indian air blows cool over the flt roofs of the very highest house. Alladin’s magician could have called into existence no more marvelous abode.
— Sir Edwin Arnold describes the structure as of Sarcenic Order of architecture, in p.210
"Discretion" means, when it is said that something is to be done within the discretion of the authorities that that something is to be done according to the rules of reason and justice, not according to private opinion2; according to law and not humour. It is to be not arbitrary, vague, and fanciful, but legal and regular. And it must be exercised within the limit, to which an honest man, competent to the discharge of his office, ought to confine himself.
— Lord Halsbury, L.C., Sharp v. Wakefield (1891), 64 L. T. Rep. 180 [1891], Ap. Ca. 173.
Discretion, when applied to a Court of justice, means sound discretion guided by law. It must be governed by rule, not by humour: it must not be arbitrary, vague, and fanciful, but legal and regular.
— Lord Mansfield, Case of John Wilkes (1763), 4 Burr. Part IV. 2539.
Come, see the north-wind's masonry. Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Snow-Storm.
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
— Line 592.
Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.
john j. mearsheimer— Chapter 4, The Primacy of Land Power, p. 109
