Bewitchment Quotes

I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

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

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

I want you to break the spell. Finish it off.” "What do you mean?” "The spell you did on me and Dimitri.” "That spell is done. It burned itself out.” I shook my head. "No. I keep thinking about him. I keep wanting to…” He smiled knowingly when I didn't finish. "My dear, that was already there, long before I set that up.

I put the ick in magic.

Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.

If anyone's under a spell, Justina, it's me. Your daughter put one on me five years ago, and I haven't broken free of it yet. Oh, and you'll be delighted to know, we've decided to resume our relationship. Don't bother with congratulations—trust me, your expression is congratulations enough.