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...
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?'...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.
There are some things which have no business being put into books for all the world to read.
Strange, said Henry Woodhope, where did you get this nonsense? From the man under the hedge. Henry, you do not listen. And he seemed honest, did he? Honest? No, not particularly. He seemed, I would sa...
Nothing was more characteristic of Sir Walter Pole than Surprize. His eyes grew large, his eyebrows rose half an inch upon his face and he leant suddenly backwards and altogether he resembled nothing...
He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.
He screamed.Mmm?' inquired the gentleman.I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.'It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully.It is certainly a m...
A Nottinghamshire man called Tubbs wished very much to see a fairy and, from thinking of fairies day and night, and from reading all sorts of odd books about them, he took it into his head that his co...
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
This is the genius of my enemy! Lock a door against him and all that happens is that he learns first how to pick a lock and second how to build a better one against you!
They were gentleman-magicians, which is to say they had never harmed any one by magic – nor ever done any one the slightest good. In fact, to own the truth, not one of these magicians had ever cast th...
The man under the hedge, sir. He is a magician. Did you never hear that if you wake a magician before his time, you risk bringing his dreams out of his head into the world?
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought perhaps iron or steel. (Metal ships indeed! The French are, as I have...
One day, he said,I shall find the right spell and banish the Darkness And on that day I will come to you.
Oh, Mr Norrell! Such a noodle I am upon occasion!
Nothing, I believe, inspires a man with such eagerness to begin his day’s work as the sight of his instruments neatly laid out
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed down with pomegranates. Ivy was almost torn from walls by...