Susanna Clarke Men Quotations

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).