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.

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.

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

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.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship

It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

Today I found an old friend.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted - folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.