Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might, ” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.

It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.

[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.