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Quotes About Sorcery

Ohelpuhebteenkát! - Stanley, tegen Jenna
~ Angie Sage
Een draak draagt de Prinses in zijn armen en jij vergéét dat? - Marcia, tegen Septimus
~ Angie Sage
These fiends can take any form they will. That is, they can, by a magic charm or the like, fling a web of sorcery about their faces, as an actor dons a mask, so that they resemble anyone they wish to.
~ Robert E. Howard
Sorcery thrives on success, not on failure.
~ Robert E. Howard
He was trying to mix fact and faith, science and sorcery,
~ Robert Masello
He was trying to mix fact and faith, science and sorcery, into one palatable, if volatile, brew.
~ Robert Masello
Muffin cups in my bakery were real sorcerer's apprentice material, like the dough for the cinnamon rolls every morning could have stood in for The Blob.
~ Robin McKinley
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
~ Rod Serling
Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands of another, no matter for what hope of gain, is one of the mysteries of perverse psychology.
~ Aleister Crowley
I have become well versed in magic.
~ Alexander Pushkin
I cast a spell to make me Juliet. It worked. But I forgot that Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. I got what I asked for.
~ Douglas Rees
The magician Merlin had a strange laugh, and it was heard when nobody else was laughing…. He laughed because he knew what was coming next.
~ Robertson Davies
That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.
~ Robin Hobb
Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
~ Salman Rushdie
WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable, or even green. Sand and salt, so much the better. Scrub pine, plumberry, and brambles, better still. From every bitter thing, after all, something hardy will surely grow. From every difficulty, the seed that's sewn is that much stronger. Ruin is the milk all witches must drink; it's the lesson they learn and the diet they're fed upon.
~ Alice Hoffman
She had fallen under water, under a spell, in love with love.
~ Alice Hoffman
Me atrevería a decir que un hechicero puede llegar a ser útil y demás, pero, o sea, ¿siempre tienen que actuar de una manera tan puñeteramente rara?
~ Joe Abercrombie
And yet, there was a witch. There is always a witch.
~ E. Lockhart
in old times inventors were not always treated very kindly. If people thought they were sorcerers, or in league with the Devil, they did not care much for the invention.
~ Edward Everett Hale
Everything is made out of Magic
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born; The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home; The Dark Tower: Treachery; The Dark Tower: The Sorcerer (one-shot comic, not collected); The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead; The Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill and The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Journey Begins.
~ Rocky Wood
She was pretty, fresh, she came from the hands of nature full of that sorcery, uncertain and eternal, that an individual passes to another individual for the secret ends of creation.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis
~ Machado de Assis
Even a witch wants sympathy.
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime