The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go.

-Bronte«  , EmilyJane
  'The Night is Darkening Round Me'.

I don't care what you sayabout me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

-Cohan, George M(ichael)
Quoted in  John McCabe George M Cohan, The Man Who Owned Broadway (1973), ch.13.

He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia, They have stolen his wits away.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'Arabia'.

And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167^74.

Lo! as that youth's eyes burned at thine, so went Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent And round his heart one strangling golden hair. 698

-Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
The House of Life,'Body's Beauty', pt.2.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Pygmalion, Preface.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  The Innocents Abroad, ch.19.