Best Witchery Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A moment passed, and I looked at her stained hands on the table before me. “And? Are you going to tell me? How goes your witchery?” She smiled her inward smile. “You were right. It is mostly will. Will and work.”

Work Witch Will Witchcraft Witchery

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“The days of mankind are nearly done. For years I have been seeing it. All we can do while we are here is live. All any human ever has been able to do is live. That is all I tried to do.”

Mankind Foresight Warhammer 40k Warhammer 40000 Living Quotes Black Library Witchery

Book:A Witch's Fate

Source: A Witch's Fate

“Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.”

Mind Ability Capable Empathy Tales Beast Fairy Spells Fairy Tale Obscure Witchcraft Enchantment Wizardry Utilization Witchery

Author:Charles de Lint

“Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.”

Capable Wizardry Witchery

Author:Charles de Lint

“Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”

Judging Guilt Convinced Existentialism Witch Nevertheless Witchery

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Spirit Magic Checks Quests Human Spirit Sorcery Twilight Zone Witchery

Author:Rod Serling

“Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.”

Stills Sides Lovely Admire Ships Witch Towers Statues Maidens Witchery

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.”

Wells Use Voice Conditions Female Madness Female Voice Witchery

Author:Anne Carson

“Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.”

Manners Courtesy Great Person Witchery

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!”

Heart Felt Sky Blue Blue Sky Witchery

Book:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

“And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.”

Men Stills Sound Beauty Air Trump Spring Mad Magnificent April Forgetfulness Witchery

Author:e. e. cummings

“There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.”

Men Mind Done Stories Young Song Sea Europe Sight Dresses Mere Ships Navy Sailor Young Minds Witchery

Author:Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

“But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.”

Thinking Men Love Should May Matter Character Fine Disease Argument Constitution Inevitable Firm Strength Of Character Pox Witchery

Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.”

World Interest Nature Grace Development Glory Seasons Train Radical Enjoyment Tire Harmonious Unfolding Passing Away Radical Change Witchery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)