"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" Quotes
"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" is a novel about two magicians in 19th-century England whose conflicting approaches to magic and ambition lead to unintended consequences and a battle for the future of English magic.
fantasy | 1006 pages | Published in 2004
Quotes
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.
The question was whether the sorcerer was the sort of person who would put up with the inconvenience of being dead.
I have always had a great deal of respect for Mr. Norrell, said Drawlight, except perhaps when he is being tiresome.
The rain had a sound altogether unlike rain in England. It was as if the rain were dancing.
Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
The study of magic was a worthy pursuit and not as some would have it, a thing of darkness and superstition.
He hardly looks like a magician at all, said Mr. Norrell. Strange's voice came out of the darkness. Hm? What? Did you say something, Mr. Norrell? I said you hardly look like a magician, said Mr. Norrell.
You are two magicians, the man said. The greatest magicians of the age. Together you will make England great again.
The world in which he found himself was a world of magic and strange things.
He had the air of a man who is always being interrupted when he is just on the point of saying something very interesting.
