Wicked Witch Quotes

• She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Queens, Halloween, Night

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• By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Wicked, Thumbs

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44

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• The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

  Gregory Maguire

  Men, Stupidity, Wickedness

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.172, Harper Collins

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• Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Party, Wicked, Wizards

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• Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

  Yip Harburg

  Wicked, Witch, Wizard Of Oz Wizard

  "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead!" (song) (1939)

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• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  L. Frank Baum

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Fictional character: The Wizard of Oz". "The Wizard of Oz", www.imdb.com. August 12, 1939.

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• It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  L. Frank Baum

  Loneliness, Heart, Wicked

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• As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, People, Why Not

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• And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wicked, Gone, Stories

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• I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.

  Lucinda Riley

  Believe, Hero, Godmother

  Lucinda Riley (2011). “The Girl on the Cliff”, p.407, Penguin UK

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• We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

  Orson Scott Card

  Promise, Wicked, Gingerbread

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• If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits.

  Richard Kadrey

  Kids, Clothes, Wicked

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• People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

  Lena Headey

  Thinking, People, Nerd

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Lena Headey On Games Worse Than 'Game Of Thrones'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 6, 2016.

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• I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

  Klaus Nomi

  Wicked, Eras, Witch

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• I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

  Lucy Punch

  Character, Wicked, Ugly

  "Talented British actress Lucy Punch packs a wallop". Interview with Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

  Alan Rickman

  Wicked, Witch, Casts

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, Wicked, Witch

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• People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, People, Wicked

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.383, Hachette UK

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• You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.

  L. Frank Baum

  Grateful, Land, People

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ – Complete Collection: 16 Novels in One Premium Edition (Fantasy Classics Series): The most Beloved Children’s Books about the Adventures in the Magical Land of Oz”, p.13, e-artnow

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• I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.

  Jude Law

  Wicked, Roles, Witch

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Did they look like anyone we know? For example… a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Giving, Wicked, Example

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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