fool-fancy

Updated: May 2, 2025

"Oh, bother," said Vernon, "every sort of fool-fancy calls itself love. There's the pleasure of pursuit there's vanity, there's the satisfaction of your own amour-propre, there's desire, there's intellectual attraction, there's the love of beauty, there's the artist's joy in doing what you know you can do well, and getting a pretty woman for sole audience.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist