Quotes About Magic

THE MAGIC TREE Everyone in that crowd turned its head, and then everyone drew a long breath of wonder and delight. A little way off, towering over their heads, they saw a tree which certainly had not been there before. – The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Rupert: "... At this rate, somebody is bound to upset the Warlock once too often, and we'll end up with a Court full of bemused looking toads." "He wouldn't dare use his magic here," said the Champion. "Don't bet on it," said Rupert. "The High Warlock has all the practicality and self-preservation instincts of a depressed lemming.

What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? Insight. Honor. Morality. Perspective. Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

No-one's used a wand in the Nightside for centuries. Wands went out with black cats and pointy hats. (All right, the Faerie Court still use them, but the Fae have always been weird.)

Magic has a fondness for patterns and repetition.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that

You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined.

You make me believe in the impossible.

At that time Math son of Mathonwy could not live unless his feet were in the lap of a virgin, except when the turmoil of war prevented him.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water.

and she, in turn, had cast a spell over the art world through the magic of controversy.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.