She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

-Alcott, Louisa May
  Little Women, pt.2, ch.34.

Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it† Its mystery isits life.We must not let indaylight uponmagic.

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.6,'The Monarchy (continued)'.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.

-Bronowski,Jacob
  Universities Quarterly, vol.10, issue 3.

[J K] Rowling speaks to an adult generation that hasn't known and doesn't care about mystery. Theyare inhabitants of urban jungles, not of the real wild. They don't have the skills to tell ersatz magic from the real thing, for as children they daily invested the ersatz with what imagination they had.

-Byatt, Dame A(ntonia) S(usan) ne¤  e Drabble
  In the NewYork Times, 8  Jul.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-Clarke, SirArthur C(harles)
  Profiles of the Future, introduction.

I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Flora Finching. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.24.

When I first heard Charlie Parker, I said,'That's how our music should be played.'† After we got it together, yeah, I knew we were making something new. It was magic. Nobody on the planet was playing like that but us.

-Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks)
 On bebop. In the San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May.

To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Feware wholly dead: Blow on a dead man's embers And a live flame will start.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'To Bring the Dead to Life'.

   This pen's all I have of magic wand.

-Harrison,Tony
  V.

[There is] a delusion that macro-economics is both viableanduseful (a delusionencouraged by its extensive use of mathematics, which must always impress politicians lacking any mathematical education, and which is really the nearest thing to the practice of magic that occurs among professional economists).

-Hayek, Friedrich August von
  The Fatal Conceit:  The Errors of Socialism, ch.6.

   O gentle Faustus, leave this damne'  d art, This magic, that will charm thy soul to hell.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.1.

Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
The Books in My Life, ch.7.

When State Magic fails unofficial magic becomes stronger.

-Reed, Ishmael Scott
  Yellow Back Radio Broke Down,'II.The Loop Garou Kid Comes Back Mad'.

J'ai fait la magique e¤  tude Du Bonheur, que nul n'e¤  lude. I studied the magic lore of Happiness Which no one can escape.

-Rimbaud, (Jean Nicolas) Arthur
" 1872  Derniers vers, Fe"  tes de la faim,'O saisons, o"    cha"  teaux!'.

As Michael read the Gaelic scroll It seemed the story of the soul; And those who wrought, lest there should fail From earth the legend of the Gael, Seemed warriors of Eternal Mind Still holding in a world gone blind, From which belief and hope had gone, The lovely magic of its dawn.

-Russell, GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó
  The Interpreters,'Michael'.

The notion of a defence that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic in the President's vision.

-Schlesinger,James
  Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 6 Feb.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine, now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

-Szasz,Thomas Stephen
  The Second Sin.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.117^28.

He did not, even in his extremity, quite abandon his faith in the magic of official forms. In bumf lay salvation.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Officers and Gentlemen, bk.2, ch.5.

   The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelotöa magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.

-White,Theodore H(arold)
  In Search of History.