Terry Goodkind Quotes

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer... he's one of the coaches that I admire most!

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

I'm a wizard and I know it.

As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

I'm polite.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.