Quotes About Imagination

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love

You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain. One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as what one reads about may produce? Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

Finchè l'immaginazione altrui galopperà per formarsi opinioni errate sulla nostra condotta e giudicarla da superficiali apparenze, la nostra felicità sarà sempre, si può dire, nelle mani del caso.

La personne, homme ou femme, qui n'éprouve pas de plaisir à la lecture d'un bon roman ne peut qu'être d'une bêtise intolérable.

En mi opinión, no hay placer mayor que la lectura.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

If someone insists their feet are always firmly on the ground, how else can you discover if their head is sometimes in the clouds?

L'immaginazione di una donna è molto veloce; salta dall'ammirazione all'amore e dall'amore al matrimonio in un momento.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Para su corazón era un asunto delicioso, para su imaginación una visión ridícula, mas para su razón, para su juicio, un verdadero embrollo.

Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on her first arrival, was again the scene of agitated spirits and unquiet slumbers. Yet how different now the source of her inquietude from what it had been then; how mournfully superior in reality and substance.

What an air of probability sometimes runs through a dream! And at others, what a heap of absurdities it is!

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

Djevoja?ka je mašta vrlo brza. Za tren oka sko?i od naklonosti do ljubavi, od ljubavi do braka.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library

What do you think of books? said he, smiling.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Pero mientras la gente se deje arrastrar por su imaginación para formarse juicios errados sobre nuestra conducta y la califique basándose en meras apariencias, nuestra felicidad estará siempre a merced del azar

La imaginación de una dama va muy rápido y salta de la admiración al amor y del amor al matrimonio en un momento

What think you of books? said he, smiling. Books—oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings. I