Susanna Clarke Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke Famous Quotes & Sayings
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After all," he thought, "what can a magician do against a lead ball? Between the pistol firing and his heart exploding, there is no time for magic.
Like the hero of a fairy-tale Mr Norrell had discovered that the power to do what he wished had been his own all along.
This is a very grave matter, punishable by ... well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.
Being a politician, he was never dissuaded from giving any body his opinion by the mere fact that they were not inclined to hear it.
Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.
The Pillar of Darkness has been a horror confined to Venice, which seemed - to the Paduans at least - a natural setting for horrors.
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest
In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.
It sometimes happens that when one acts quickly and with great resolve, all the indecisiveness and doubt comes afterwards, when it is too late. So
Sometimes you my graciously permit all the most beautiful ladies in the land to wait in line to kiss your hands and fall in love with you.
In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have.
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
Beautiful flames, can destroy so many things - prison walls that hold you, stitches that bind you fast.
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
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.
For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and sour-faced as he may.
And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
You must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
Other countries have stories of kings who will return at times of great
need. Only in England is it part of the constitution.
need. Only in England is it part of the constitution.
O, wherever men of my sort used to go, long ago. Wandering on paths that other men have not seen. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.
But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.
Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass.
Childermass shrugged.
Childermass shrugged.
He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.
Byron!" exclaimed the little man. "Really? Dear me! Mad, and a friend of Lord Byron!" He sounded as if he did not know which was worse.
One day," he said,"I shall find the right spell and banish the Darkness And on that day I will come to you.
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.
Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.
One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.
Mr. Honeyfoot did not propose going quite so far
indeed he did not wish to go far at all because it was winter and the roads where very shocking.
indeed he did not wish to go far at all because it was winter and the roads where very shocking.
Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they?
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
He argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.
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.
It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.'
The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by
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.
Both had indulged in, if not Black Magic, then certainly magic of a darker hue than seemed desirable or legitimate.
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
Soldiers, I am sorry to say, steal everything." He thought for a moment and then added, "Or at least ours do." How
a book of magic should be written by a practising magician, rather than a theoretical magician or a historian of magic.
'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'
It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.
And such a pinched-looking ruin of a thing now! I shall advice all the good-looking woman of my acquaintance not to die.