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Quotes About Sorcery

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
~ William Shakespeare
You have witchcraft in your lips.
~ Unknown
He forgot everything: the sorcerer upstairs, the mission, his own imperfection, and the shame and bitterness that came with it.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
In a less scientific age he would have been a devil-worshiper, a partaker in the abominations of the Black Mass; or he would have given himself to the study and practice of sorcery. His was a religious soul that had failed to find good in the scheme of things; and lacking it, was impelled to make of evil itself an object of secret reverence. - The Devotee of Evil
~ Clark Ashton Smith
A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.
~ Unknown
Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.
~ Philip K. Dick
I'm afraid I can't do the things you want me to do because people don't go in much for sorcery nowadays. I don't think they'd be very interested.
~ Penelope Lively
It also imposed Taliban-style rule (a draconian implementation of sharia, or Koranic, law that has involved throwing homosexuals to their deaths from tall buildings, lopping off the hands of thieves, beheading women accused of "sorcery," and enslaving and raping minority women) over some eight million Syrians and Iraqis. Within
~ Peter Bergen
Some unscrupulous ngangas, traditional herbalists and sorcerers, say they know how to defeat this sickness, for a fee. And they prescribe snuff to be shoved up the vagina; or muti, various bogus unguents and ointments made from the ground bones of wild animals.
~ Unknown
Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.
~ Philip K. Dick
Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.
~ Philip K. Dick
steer clear of the love of dark sorceresses.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
There was a board game called 'Sorcery,' which is one of my favorites, and I would often revisit the game. It's not a video game, but it definitely stands out in my mind as a game that impacted me.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
Oh yeah? How about M'Lin the cursed?
~ Unknown
Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
~ Jim Butcher
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
~ Jim Butcher
I put the ick in magic.
~ Jim Butcher
My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?
~ Jim Butcher
Magic. It can get a guy killed.
~ Jim Butcher
Molly was committing dinner. . .
~ Jim Butcher
Gandalf never had this kind of problem.
~ Jim Butcher
It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy.
~ Jim Butcher
We wizards are terrific at brooding.
~ Jim Butcher
Murphy," I hissed. "Are you absolutely sure about this hair? That it belongs to Kravos?" If it didn't, the doll wouldn't do diddly to the sorcerer, unless I managed to throw it into his eye. "We're reasonably sure," she whispered, "yes." "Reasonably sure. Great." But I knelt down, and marked out the circle around me, then another around the Ken doll, and wrought my spell.
~ Jim Butcher