Imagination Quotes

"This has nothing to do with will-power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgment--the judgment to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance." ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. ~ The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. ~ The Trespasser by Gilbert Parker "Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." ~ Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens The goblins of her fancy lurked in every shadow about her, reaching out their cold, fleshless hands to grasp the terrified small girl who had called them into being. ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food. ~ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot "What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!" ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen