Imagine

Famous quotes containing the word imagine:

    Do I imagine he no longer trembles
    When I come close to him?
    He seems no longer to tremble.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has?
    Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
    Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)