Charles Dickens Quotes About Imagination

• Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Memories, Long

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.502, Xist Publishing

• I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Creativity, School

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14216, Delphi Classics

• 'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Imagination, Sublime

  'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 34

• My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

  Charles Dickens

  Humble, Science, Imagination

  Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mamie Dickens, Laurence Hutton, Richard Herne Shepherd (1908). “Letters and Speeches”

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