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William Shakespeare Quotes about Imagination

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Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare
Strong, Night, Imagination
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

William Shakespeare
Drinking, Wine, Imagination
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [103]

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

William Shakespeare
Song, Imagination, Gorges
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Imagination, Imperfection, Acting
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Oxford University Press, USA

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.

William Shakespeare
Imagination, Honor, Toil
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

William Shakespeare
Giving, Imagination, Ambitious
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

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