Quotes About Witches

#1. Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

Chris Pine

#2. I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

Helena Bonham Carter

#3. Minerva McGonagall was later awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, by the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and shortly afterwards appeared on a card in the Chocolate Frog Famous Witches and Wizards series, an accolade she admitted she had never imagined receiving.

J.K. Rowling

#4. There was a bond, you see, when we were both young, but she wanted to be the best of all witches and I hoped one day to be Archchancellor. Alas for us, our dreams came true.

Terry Pratchett

#5. In part. She sat down and pulled her necklace out of her shirt. I read about it in my mother's journal. The Witches believe we are all parts of a whole. Like the phases of the moon. Together, we complete the circle and bring balance.

Amber Argyle

#6. For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair" ... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

Salman Rushdie

#7. Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten.

Dacha Avelin

#8. Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.

Bella Bathurst

#9. All witches keep their kisses in everyday objects, so that their hearts won't break too often.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#10. Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. How little commoners understood, Eshram thought, shaking his head. Most witches were good people, harmless. They only wanted to be one with nature, and were simply misunderstood.

David Bernstein

#12. But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

Hans Blix

#13. Have patience, Aylin, this is only the beginning. I can give you this answer to your question, though. There are more than faeries and witches in these woods."
-Finn

Anne Haley

#14. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Patrick Ness

#15. Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

Janet Montgomery

#16. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians" ~ The Witch of the North

L. Frank Baum

#17. In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it's a little bit of a witches' brew. I completely think I'm capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.

Sam Simon

#18. Devil's Wish
A bowl of spells
Swirls a mix
Smoke and bubbles
Seek the fix
Young boy's eye
And fever few
Witches grass
Some mandrake root

William O'Brien

#19. Witches do that, they put things you want in places you shouldn't go.

Claire King

#20. In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine ...

Celia Rees

#21. The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose.

Terry Pratchett

#22. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.

Matt Groening

#23. I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

Helen Oyeyemi

#24. Don't let western authors and evangelists fool you, Europeans were NOT killing witches; they were killing WOMEN. If the criminal act was allegedly that of sorcery/witchery, we would have seen similar accounts and charges against men to justify these narratives! They were indeed killing the WOMEN.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#25. She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Jack Kerouac

#26. Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?

Anna Fienberg

#27. Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Simone De Beauvoir

#28. My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'

Zendaya

#29. It's all blood and roses from here on in. As witches, we should prepare to fly on the wings of the storm.

Peter Grey

#30. Clockwise is sunwise - as opposed to 'widdershins', which witches use.

J.S. Atherton

#31. You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches.

Iliza Shlesinger

#32. It's really over." He put his arms around her, pulling her to him. "Now just as long as you don't get tangled up with a pack of vampires or deranged witches while you're at college, everything will be wonderful.

Amanda Hocking

#33. I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Terry Pratchett

#34. The Vampyres were loosey goosey, the Witches were nuts and the freakin' Fairies were downright pushovers, but not the Weres. Nope, if you enlisted you were in for life.

Robyn Peterman

#35. Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

Cate Tiernan

#36. Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

William Shakespeare

#37. MODESTY My momma, your momma, gonna catch a witch My momma, your momma, flying on a switch My momma, your momma, witches never cry My momma, your momma, witches gonna die! As

J.K. Rowling

#38. On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park ...

Nick Gordon

#39. The air's crisp with the smell of autumn, and the first few leaves have started to change color. The streets have that family-friendly feel. Store windows already have pumpkins and witches' hats in them.

Adriana Mather

#40. Witches are good for one thing and only one thing.
Tinder.
Bowen Graeme MacRieve.

Kresley Cole

#41. All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

E.L. James

#42. Witches have animals they can talk to, called familiars. Like your toad there."

"I'm not familiar," said a voice from among the paper flowers. "I'm just slightly presumptuous.

Terry Pratchett

#43. The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

Kate Forsyth

#44. Now we'd help her if we could. We can't. So we're helping you. That's all that most of us who are not Tsars or witches can manage to do.

Gregory Maguire

#45. We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn.

Tish Thawer

#46. She had a crooked nose and a pointy chin with a huge mole that had wiry black hairs growing out of it. Heck, if the New Order was really looking to arrest witches ...

James Patterson

#47. Witches' Warts! Looks like I'm going to have to break witch law again.

Rowena May O'Sullivan

#48. Go on, just come out with it, whatever it is." She braced herself against the counter.
Peter glanced down at the tile floor, and then back up at her, and sighed. "Fine. Here it is. Do you think Witches could have killed my father?

Deborah Blake

#49. If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

Christina Baker Kline

#50. The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

John Jewel

#51. All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.

William Butler Yeats

#52. Fantastique, 'Dream of a Witches' Sabbat'. "Though

Martin Edwards

#53. You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.

Kim Harrison

#54. Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#55. The priests of the different religious sects . . . dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live. - THOMAS JEFFERSON

Richard Dawkins

#56. I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spells. I didn't want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation.

V.C. Andrews

#57. The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

John Selden

#58. People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.

Anna Bayes

#59. [H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times, December 12, 1991)]

Salman Rushdie

#60. You can't say that you need to burn witches and shun gay men but eat pork and wear all the mixed fibers you want!!

Heidi Cullinan

#61. I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

Martin Luther

#62. Then that accounts for it. In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us.

L. Frank Baum

#63. It was a summer shower but didn't appear to know it, and it was pouring rain as fast as a winter storm. Miss Perspicacia Tick sat in what little shelter a raggedy hedge could give her and explored the universe. She didn't notice the rain. Witches dried out quickly.

Terry Pratchett

#64. W-what are you?"
Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

Anne Bishop

#65. Witches did not mourn, because witches did not love enough to allow it to break them. Even if Asterin, now taking up her place by the Blackbeak Matron's Second, had proved otherwise.

Sarah J. Maas

#66. The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.

Jerry Falwell

#67. Well, one day all the world's wizards and witches will kneel before Jesus and call Him 'Lord.

Jim Yackel

#68. Better to be afraid of witches and murderers than to be one.

Tabitha Morrow

#69. Women know when men don't desire them: ghosts and witches, deities and demons, angels of death - even virgins, even ordinary women. They always know; women can tell when you have stopped desiring them.

John Irving

#70. Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

China Mieville

#71. WITCHES ARE MATRILINEAL, said Death. THEY FIND IT MUCH EASIER TO CHANGE MEN THAN TO CHANGE NAMES.

Terry Pratchett

#72. There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

Mark Twain

#73. Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Terry Pratchett

#74. ... I would have run wild through a magical kingdom and never looked back. Talking animals? Yes. Witches and monsters? Yes. Dark queens? Absolutely. Give it right here. I would have said yes to all of it.

Catherynne M Valente

#75. I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

Charlaine Harris

#76. It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#77. O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

Arthur Rimbaud

#78. Witches are bitches and they'll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give' em half a chance.

Patricia Briggs

#79. [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

#80. You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

Janet Morris

#81. Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches, rape and fratricide.

Marie Browne

#82. I've always been convinced that women have a supernatural ability to know what's going on in a man's soul. They're all witches.

Paulo Coelho

#83. It is Halloween," he explains coyly. "I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don't we spend our whole life as witches?

Paul Russell

#84. There were really only four kind of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches.

Terry Pratchett

#85. There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.

Thomm Quackenbush

#86. But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.

Terry Pratchett

#87. History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.

Cressida Cowell

#88. If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths are solemn and the witches are my friends. I would not want to hurt their feelings. They have secrets which to them are sacred. They have good reason for their secrecy.

Gerald Gardner

#89. Nanny had nothing against witches being married. It wasn't as if there were rules. She herself had had many husbands, and had even been married to three of them. But

Terry Pratchett

#90. Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing ... ?

Mason Cooley

#91. At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

John Updike

#92. Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.

Terry Pratchett

#93. Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.

Terry Pratchett

#94. I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice ... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it.

Pat Robertson

#95. Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#96. Besides, tourists go out there all the time. The volcano can't be that dangerous."
"I'm guessing the tourists aren't trying to steal a forbidden object out from under the noses of evil witches."
"Not unless they've paid for the deluxe package".

Andrea Cremer

#97. Witches can generally come to terms with what actually is, instead of insisting on what ought to be.

Terry Pratchett

#98. Witches aren't like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

Terry Pratchett

#99. Yeah? Well, you and your snooty, all-knowing witches have never been to the moon. My people have, because it was there and it was a good thing to do," Lily said in her best Boston accent. "So bite my scientist-loving ass.

Josephine Angelini

#100. Elderly witches and wizards still use the saying 'I'll take Cadogan's pony' to mean, 'I'll salvage the best I can from a tricky situation'.

J.K. Rowling