“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”
Origine: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”
Origine: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”
Origine: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”
Origine: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
“You mean to say he became mad deliberately?'
… Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.”
Origine: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Origine: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Variante: I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
Origine: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.”
Origine: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Origine: Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell. Tom 3
“I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.”
Origine: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell