
“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”
Source: Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: The Green Mile
“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”
Source: Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Context: But I really, since I exist, at all, I believe that it's possible for people... I've lived through impossible situations. So I believe in it. I just believe, and that's the magic... That's the whole thing, you talk about magic that there's to believe in, and it is there. But most people don't really believe in it. And I refuse, like, since I'm still alive and done the things I've done and seen things and understood things as far as I have, and I am alive, I mean physically intact. When I shouldn't be, according to medical reports and so forth. I mean I should be, not here. That's all there is to it. So the magic's working and it's a rare situation.
“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
Message as a member of the French resistance, to his superiors in London, insisting that certain codewords "The library is on fire" be changed after a disastrous parachute drop which set a forest on fire and alerted the Gestapo to the location of his group of Maquis fighters, as quoted in René Char : This Smoke That Carried Us : Selected Poems (2004) edited by Susanne Dubroff
“I don't believe in magic, either.”
As quoted in "Success of Harry Potter bowls author over" at CNN.com (21 October 1999)
1990s
As quoted in Rati's personal diaries http://www.ratitsiteladze.com
“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”
Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter vii.