Horror Quote by Gabriel Salmon

“Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General (1645 – 1647) by Stewart Stafford ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’ – Exodus, Nor allow legalised killing…

— Stewart Stafford

“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not…

— William Bolitho

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

— Carol Zaleski

“I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger-lane this morning. ... I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and…

— Charles Dickens

“He comes with those in his employ, to watch, gathering evidence and confession. His success speaks of a countryside rife with evil, an intemperate…

— Becky Wright

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

— Jones Very

“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous wickedness, secret…

— John William Polidori

“Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor’s at the stake.…

— William Shakespeare

“Hamlet: … for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so…”

— Hamlet Act 2 scene 2

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities,…

— Mary Frances Cusack

“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time ago that…

— Gauri Sharma

“I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation,…

— Oscar Wilde