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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. - John Keats (1) Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them. - Alphonse de Lamartine Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams. - James Russell Lowell When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain, And builded with roofs of gold My beautiful castles in Spain! - James Russell Lowell, Aladdin (st. 1) His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, On John Dryden I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. - Mary McCarthy Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.] - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) Imagination decides everything. - Blaise Pascal Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. - Blaise Pascal I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins. - Terry Prachett, in the "Sunday Times" Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. - Marcel Proust Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium! - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"), Confessions of an Opium Eater The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. - Mary Caroline Richards Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau The world of reality has its limits, the world of imagination is boundless. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. - Helen Rowland Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizard world. - J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling Imagination is that faculty which arouses the passions by the impression of exterior objects; it is influenced by these objects, and consequently it is in affinity with them; it is contagious; its fear or courage flies from imagination to imagination; the same in love, hate, joy, or grief; hence I conclude it to be a most subtle atmosphere. - John Russell (1) And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks has strong imagination That if he would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear? - William Shakespeare He waxes desperate with imagination. - William Shakespeare The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i) The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i) In my mind's eye, Horatio. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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