There is nothing in love but what we imagine. [ Sainte-Beuve ]
Knaves imagine nothing can be done without knavery. [ Proverb ]
Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible. [ Alan Turing ]
One can not imagine how much cleverness is necessary not to be ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]
They whose guilt within their bosoms lie imagine every eye beholds their blame. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. [ C. Nodier ]
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. [ Lavater ]
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. [ Alan Turing ]
What we wish we readily believe, and what we think ourselves we imagine that others think also. [ Caesar ]
The error of certain women is to imagine that, to acquire distinction, they must imitate the manners of men. [ J. de Maistre ]
One of the most seductive illusions of love is to imagine that we contribute to the happiness of those we love. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I. to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith! [ Artemus Ward ]
When we imagine that we love, it is the presence of the loved one that deceives us: when we truly love, it is absence that proves it. [ Lingrie ]
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. [ Swift ]
The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. [ Locke ]
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. [ Johnson ]
Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilization goes they are in their second. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
There are jilts in friendship, as well as in love; and by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with the view only of making the parties miserable. [ Fielding ]
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. [ W. E. Channing ]
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]
Chance is a term we apply to events to denote that they happen without any necessary or foreknown cause. When we say a thing happens by chance, we mean no more than that its cause is unknown to us, and not, as some vainly imagine, that chance itself can be the cause of anything. [ C. Buck ]
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. [ Burke ]
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative In your reading; to read faithfully and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in, - a real, not an imaginary - and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. [ Carlyle ]
Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward; or melt an audience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heartless profligate. [ H. W. Hillard ]
If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are, at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling. [ Sir H. Davy ]