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Imagination Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
- It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they…
- Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are…
- When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from…
- A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do…
- We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations…
- The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of…
- Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression…
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard
- I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana