The Conjurer Quotes

#1. Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

George Herbert

#2. The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.

Hake Talbot

#3. He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. Kohlrabi's face had no expression at all, and suddenly Mosca could barely recognize him. His face had always seemed so honest, like an unshuttered window through which emotions shone without disguise. Perhaps his expressions had always been a magic-lantern display, a conjurer's trick.

Frances Hardinge

#5. Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

David Lynch

#6. A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.

Amit Kalantri

#7. And great men do great good, or else great harm.

John Webster

#8. Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

Tristan Tzara

#9. a conjurer will offer you alternatives to choose from but you always end up picking the one that he wants you to!

Ashwin Sanghi

#10. If you don't have a sense of wonder it's like you're dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing that's basically a conjurer's trick, or a con job, or a rip-off.

Bruce Sterling

#11. Conjurer: Oh, I don't mind anyone knowing everything, Miss Carleon. There is something that is much more important than knowing how a thing is done.
Morris: And what's that?
Conjurer: Knowing how to do it.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

Amit Kalantri

#13. The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

Amit Kalantri

#14. She wondered, wondered, shuffling back through a fat deckful of days which seemed (wouldn't she be first to admit it?) more or less identical, or all pointing the same way subtly like a conjurer's deck, any odd one readily clear to a trained eye.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

Amit Kalantri

#16. The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

David Devant

#17. A conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick;

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Amit Kalantri

#19. The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?

Coluche

#20. you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all." -Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Amit Kalantri

#22. All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

#23. Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Amit Kalantri