William Shakespeare Quotes

With a soft tongue you can even pull a snake out of its nest.

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Magic should get under people's skins.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

You have witchcraft in your lips

Eloquence is logic on fire.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Is she for real?” He paused and reconsidered. “Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don’t get me wrong. I drink blood and control people’s minds. But I’ve never heard of anything like this.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?