Ahmad Iqbal
When you give the reins to reason then the imagination is repressed.
Austen Jane 1775-1817
Pride and Prejudice
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration
to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Billings Josh 1818-1885
There are many people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
(of Keats)
Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation - he is always
f-gg-g his imagination. I don't mean that he is indecent but
viciously soliciting his own any thing else but a Bedlam vision
produced by raw pork and opium.
Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human
memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that
lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
Doyle Sir Arthur Conan 1959-1930
A Study in Scarlet
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Ellis Havelock 1859-1939
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Giraudoux Jean 1882-1944
La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
All of us here know there's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a
lawyer interprets the truth.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in
the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.
Joubert Joseph 1754-1824
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Kant Immanuel 1724-1804
Foundation of the Metaphysics of Ethics
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
Keats John 1795-1821
Endymion (preface)
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a
man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul
is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the
ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
Keats John 1795-1821
Letter to Benjamin Bailey
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the polar
star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
Keats John 1795-1821
Letter to Benjamin Bailey
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and
the truth of imagination - what the imagination seizes as beauty must
be truth - whether it existed before or not.
Lackington James 1746-1815
Memoirs
At last, by singing and repeating enthusiastic amorous hymns, and
ignorantly applying particular texts of scripture, I got my imagination
to the proper pitch, and thus was I born again in an instant.
Lowell James Russell 1819-1891
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as
society is wholesome for the character.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
(of John Dryden)
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled
him to run, though not to soar.
Martin Pete
(after his Bank's computer had doubled all clients' deposits)
The hazards of computing are limited only by your imagination.
Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is
more powerful in the mature than in the young.
More Hannah 1745-1833
Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears, creates.
Peter Laurence 1910-1990
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something
better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
Proust Marcel 1871-1922
Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
John Bull's Other Island
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for
his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Wright Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
An idea is salvation by imagination.