It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome. At
He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confinedin their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation ofpassers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his facec...
Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.
For a moment or two before the spell took effect, he was aware of all the sounds around him: rain splashing on metal and leather, and running down canvas; horses shuffling and snorting; Englishmen sin...
Even a magician must have relations,
Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
Books and papers are the basis of good scholarship and sound knowledge, declared Mr Norrell primly. Magic is to be put on the same footing as the other disciplines.
All magicians lie and this one more than most,
The silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
She bore so many of the signs and disfigurings of extreme old age that she was losing her resemblance to other human beings and began instead to resemble other orders of living creatures. Her arms lay...
A book of magic should be written by a practising magician, rather than a theoretical magician or a historian of magic.
They had no relish for gossiping about their acquaintance and even politics seemed a little dull. In short they felt that they should like to have the pleasure of looking at Lady Pole again, and so th...
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure. It is, after all, what everyone does all the time.
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
The sky spoke to me, said Childermass. If what I saw was true, then … He paused. Then what? asked Mr Norrell. In his weakened state Childermass had been thinking aloud. He had meant to say that if wha...
The York magicians had all looked over the letter and expressed their doubts that any body with such small handwriting could ever make a tolerable magician.
Shape-changing and so on were all very well in the past. It makes a vivid incident in a story, I grant you. But surely, Strange, you would not want to practise it? A gentleman cannot change his shape....
Palavra de honra, não existe nada no mundo tão fácil de explicar como o fracasso... É, afinal de contas, o que todo mundo alcança o tempo inteiro.
Magic (in the practical sense) was much fallen off. It had low connexions.
I shall advise all the good-looking women of my acquaintance not to die