David Copperfield Quotes

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.

For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

have you taken leave of your senses

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.