Besides, said Mr Norrell, I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, full of misinformation and wrong...
In a war one is either living like a prince or a vagabond. I
Hush, sir! whispered the man, Your voice. It is too loud. You will wake him up! Wake him up? Who? The man under the hedge, sir. He is a magician. Did you never hear that if you wake a magician before...
Had it not been for Mr. Drawlight and Mr. Lascelles (benevolent souls!) the Town would have been starved of information of any sort, but they drove diligently about London making their appearance in a...
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.
After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string qua...
And a couple of days later he sent Strange a haggis (a sort of Scotch pudding) as a present.
Woods were ringed with a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all. It was more the of a colour - as if the trees were dreaming green dreams or thinking green tho...
When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.
They were Englishmen and, to them, the decline of other nations was the most natural thing in the world. They belonged to a race blessed with so sensitive an appreciation of its own talents (and so do...
The little man was all smiling acquiescence.
Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir? he said. My kingdoms? exclaimed the gentleman in s...
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhap...
Mr Norrell assured Mr Strange that he would find war very disagreeable. One is often wet and cold upon a battlefield. You will like it a great deal less than you suppose.
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 may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. Oth...
In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.
I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.
I hope there may be bogs and that John McKenzie may drown in them.