Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Imagination, Betrayed, Want

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.101, Oxford University Press

• Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Music, Country, Art

• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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