“A devilish temper she had, but she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”

“But he always liked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”

“The fine flower of unholiness can grow only in the close neighborhood of the Holy.”

“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”

“It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.”

“In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.”