All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

But, though French, she was also very brave.

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.