David Copperfield Quotes
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When I lived at home with papa and mama, I really should have hardly understood what the word meant, in the sense in which I now employ it, but experientia does it, - as papa used to say.
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I ate umble pie with an appetite.
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'It's very strange,' said Mr. Dick ... 'that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfectly clear.'
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Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
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I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.
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I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
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It’s only my child-wife!
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It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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I am a lone lorn creetur... and everythink goes contrairy with me.
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances the-a-I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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I assure you she's the dearest girl!
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I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
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The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
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You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.