Witch Quotes

• Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

  Anthony Hecht

  Dark, Secret, Suggestions

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• 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

  Pregnancy, Sleep, Night

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• Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Miracle

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• The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Sleep, Dark

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection: Six Marvellous Stories Including The BFG and Five Other Stories”, p.533, Penguin UK

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• God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

  Samuel Butler

  Religion, Lasts

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• 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

  Believe, Mean, Expression

  "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.

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• A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

  Terry Pratchett

  Soul, Forests, Should

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

  Charles de Lint

  Wall, Heart, Iron

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• The Witch can gaze clearly into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche just as the full moon can light up the darkness of night.

  Raven Grimassi

  Dark, Moon, Night

  Raven Grimassi (2003). “Spirit of the Witch: Religion & Spirituality in Contemporary Witchcraft”, p.8, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

  C. S. Lewis

  Magic, Citing, Narnia

  "Fictional character: Aslan". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Superstitious

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.162, Random House

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• There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

  Mike Mason

  Doctors, Drug, Coercion

  Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah

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• In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 17, 2011

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• Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

  Franny Billingsley

  Looks

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.291, A&C Black

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• Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

  Yip Harburg

  Wicked, Wizard Of Oz Wizard, Wicked Witch Of The West

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

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• I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Doctors, Names, Giving

  "Ferraro Recounts Second Thoughts On Her Nomination, Citing Scrutiny" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 1984.

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• If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Upset, Favors

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Men feared witches and burned women.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Burned

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Beautiful, Has Beens

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

  Terry Pratchett

  Magic, Wizards, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.182, Random House

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• [The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cracks, Tables, Narnia

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

  Gregory Maguire

  Struggle, Choices, Wicked

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Book, Home

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• It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Mean

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.117, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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