Divination Quotes

She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. (George Eliot)

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Arthur Symons

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

A. E. Waite

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

Joanne Harris

When you talk about being an ‘anticipator,' of having a pretty good idea of when something's going to happen-or how, or who will be there-isn't that a kind of divination?” "No. I think it's more a kind of subconscious knack for dealing with statistics, against a fairly well-known field of actions.

Roger Zelazny

All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand be inspected, whether dream or vision be seen, whether marking of entrails or mad inspiration be consulted, there must be a Celestial Figure first erected, by the means of whole indications, together with the conjectures of Signs and Similitudes, they endeavour to find out the truth of what is desired.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

That charm of genius, triumph of high art; Poetry's divination, which reveals All nature's secrets, such as influence The heart of man.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is a deep, ancient connection between gambling and divination.

Aaron C. Brown

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Arthur Machen