Witch Quotes - Page 12

• Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

  Peter Schiff

  Doctors, Medicine, Politics

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• What is it with conservatives? Seriously, I'm not trying to be partisan but it seems like if they're anti-illegal alien, they have illegal aliens working for them. If they're anti-gay, they turn out to be gay. If they're super Christian, they're a witch.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Gay, Trying

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• 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

  Sex, Medicine, Scandal

  "Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction by Tracy Borman - review" by Bella Bathurst, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2013.

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• There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

  Sarah Vowell

  Prayer, Museums, Talking

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.

  Laurie Cabot

  Powerful, Mind, Metaphor

  Laurie Cabot (2013). “Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment”, p.16, Delta

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• I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

  Julie Kagawa

  Fear, Son, Brooms

  Julie Kagawa (2015). “Iron Fey Series Volume 2: The Iron Knight\Iron's Prophecy\The Lost Prince\The Iron Traitor”, p.26, Harlequin

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• The Goat of Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of ancient Egypt where fertility worship - Baal worship -- was practiced). Masons admit readily that Baphomet is a pagan fertility god and, more importantly, that Freemasonry is a fertility cult religion. At any rate, this mockery of Jesus is a satanic symbol and figures prominently in Satan worship.

  Kerr Cuhulain

  Jesus, Egypt, Cities

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• At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  People, Uncanny, Warlocks

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• In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Doctors

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Burning

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• It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts... until they see a witch.

  Jon Stewart

  Hate, Hunts, Witch Hunt

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• I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a lot of truths. Just as a side point, for instance, we always think the bad guys in fairy tales are the stepmothers, who are witches. But where are the fathers when the witches are killing and mishandling their children? Away. They are on a business trip. They are hunting, they are away. Wow, you know! No one says the fathers are the bad guys! It's one of the things you don't say. But my goodness, where are they?

  Lore Segal

  Children, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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 out of enjoying the strange and weird.

  China Mieville

  Children, Book, Dragons

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them. It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them. "Congratulations, Harry!' she said beaming at him. "I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How do you feel now about the fairness of the scoring?" "Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Goodbye!

  J. K. Rowling

  Goodbye, Congratulations, Dragons

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• Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.

  Barbara Hambly

  Running, Differences, Wizards

  Barbara Hambly (1987). “The Witches of Wenshar”, Del Rey

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• Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Hands, Two

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.13, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

  Kim Harrison

  Modern, Walking, Modern Day

  "Leading a Double Life Turned This Woman Into a Best-Selling Author". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. September 13, 2014.

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• The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Beautiful, Cousin, Brother

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• I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.

  Anne Ursu

  Believe, Winning, Turtles

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• With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

  Joel Miller

  War, Thinking, Witch Trials

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• When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

  Susan Cooper

  Song, Dark, Sea

  Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

  Stevie Smith

  Past, People, Age

  'The Past' (1957)

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• The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.

  Alton Brown

  Princess, Heart, Way

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• All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Rivers, Waiting, Boards

  Elizabeth George Speare (1958). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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