Being A Witch Quotes

#1. Being a witch was indeed an onerous task. If people accepted us, they wanted the impossible. If they didn't, they wanted to burn us at the stake.

Maria E. Schneider

#2. Being a witch meant going into places you didn't want to go.

Terry Pratchett

#3. I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.

Hugh Lofting

#4. It was never easy being a witch. Oh, the broomstick was great, but to be a witch you needed to be sensible, so sensible that sometimes it hurt. You dealt with the reality - not what people wanted.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Being a witch is a man's job: that's why it needs women to do it.

Terry Pratchett

#6. One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.

Christiana Miller

#7. We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Terry Jones

#8. His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation.

Sapphire Phelan

#9. It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.

Helena Bonham Carter

#10. [T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.

Robin Briggs

#11. Even you couldn't have magicked that into being, witch,

Lauren Groff

#12. Do you ever get tired of being such a witch?" Vol asks, holding open the door.
"Oh, no. Never." She smiles. "You have to admit, it's so much more interesting than being nice.

Nenia Campbell

#13. I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Adele

#14. Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring your light and learning to celebrate your darkness.

Dacha Avelin

#15. My voice of reason is always Lola. "You're a jackass."
"You only say that when I'm being your voice of reason."
"Out of my head, witch. And don't piss me off, I tell her. "I'll buy you underwear one size too small for Christmas and make you hate life.

Christina Lauren

#16. If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Those Puritans would spice the Gallic stew of upper Maine for years, causing no end of trouble to Agnes, who, to be fair, was a witch and a succubus and everything else they ever called her, but that's no excuse for being such poor neighbors, when you think about it.

Catherynne M Valente

#18. I found out a long time ago it's more fun being the wicked witch than the helpless princess.

Tammy Faith

#19. Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.

Gregory Maguire

#20. The little witch had no faith in him. Of course he wouldn't let evil have her. He'd bite evil in the ass, shake his slimy soul until his teeth fell out, then gorge on the soft tissue of his belly and make him watch being eaten alive.

Gem Sivad

#21. Her mind made great, panicked leaps between the mundane - He smells pleasantly of soap and witch hazel - and the practical: How could another human being weigh so much? Is he filled with rocks?

Jenn Bennett

#22. Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down.
Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)

Sapphire Phelan

#23. Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

John Updike

#24. In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

David Liss

#25. This was the hardest part. It was easier to be the witch, the harpy. Being human was dangerous.

Frances Hardinge

#26. Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Walter Kirn

#27. I was relying on Suliman being alive.THen when all that seemed to be left of him was Percival, I was so scared I had to go out and get drunk. And then you go and play into the Witch's hand!" "I'm the eldest!" Sophie shrieked. "I'm a failure!" "Garbage!" Howl shouted. "You just never stop to think!

Diana Wynne Jones

#28. NEVER FORGET THAT YOU ARE A WOMAN, AND THE GREATEST POWERS YOU CAN EMPLOY AS A WITCH ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON YOUR OWN SELF-REALIZATION THAT IN BEING A WOMAN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM A MAN AND THAT VERY DIFFERENCE MUST BE EXPLOITED!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#29. Even I recognize that I'm not being a proper role model right now. But I need you to understand. As your mother, it's my duty to protect you from the evil intentions of whoever did this ... and I'll become a demon if I have to. That's all there is to it.

Ryukishi07

#30. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary for a horrible haunted forest being inhabited by a child eating witch.

Seanan McGuire

#31. In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches ... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

Helen Mirren

#32. She's so - well, maybe she is a witch. I mean, maybe that's what witches were ... old women with strange talents. Like her - being able to pass through time.

Philip K. Dick

#33. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.

Starhawk

#35. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

Lana Parrilla