Quote by Susanna Clarke Download Open image ““In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.”” — Susanna Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that. -King Lear Act 3, scene 4, 17–22” — Shakespeare, William Copy Share
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“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Whenever his father’s eyes were on him, he became uncomfortably aware of all his deformities and shortcomings.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
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“Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. It has all grown one way. The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Mr Norrell was delighted. He did not believe that anyone had ever proposed such a piece of magic before and begged Sir Walter to… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of a breeze blowing into the house and bringing with it the half-remembered scents of childhood. There was a shift in the light which seemed to cause all the shadows in the room to fall differently. There was nothing more… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share
“A gentleman in Mr Norell's position with a fine house and a large estate will always be of interest to his neighbors and, unless… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Long, long ago, (said the voice), five hundred years ago or more, on a winter's day at twilight, a young man entered the Church… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Fairies do not make a strong distinction between the animate and the inanimate. They believe that stones, doors, trees, fire, clouds and so forth all have souls and desires, and are either masculine or feminine. Perhaps this explains the extraordinary sympathy for madness which fairies exhibit. For example, it used to be well known that when fairies hid themselves from… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share
