Witches Quotes
161 quotes by 116 authors
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In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
— Thomas Szasz
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I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.
— Rob Zombie
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Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick…
— Haruki Murakami
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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking…
— Mark Twain
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
— Neil Gaiman
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Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. It’s just, well, you’ve got to take it in turns. Today we’ll go out witchfinding,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy…
— Shel Silverstein
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There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden,…
— Neil Gaiman
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All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.
— William Butler Yeats
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All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in…
— Washington Irving
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Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone.…
— Stephen Sondheim
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What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely…
— Andre Breton
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What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?…
— Libba Bray
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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…
— China Mieville
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I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her…
— Terry Pratchett
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Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
— Charlie Huston
Who Wrote These Witches Quotes
116 authors contributed a total of 161 Witches Quotes, led by these top contributors: