Witches have long been a subject of fascination and intrigue. Many quotes about witches capture the mystique and power associated with them. These quotes often reflect the fear and suspicion that surround witches, as well as their perceived abilities to work with magic and the supernatural. They offer insights into the beliefs and perceptions people have held towards witches throughout history.
The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.' — Gerald Gardner
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
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy. — Laurie Cabot
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. — Neil Gaiman
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
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it. — Mikhail Bulgakov
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life. — Christopher Penczak
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit! — J. K. Rowling
There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands... — Simon R. Green
'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright.
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
For what listen they? — John Keats
Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you! — C. S. Lewis
Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena — Paulo Coelho
I’m just so glad that girl power is working in Hollywood. — Vivica Fox
It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms! — January Jones
Witches Image Quotes
Macbeth Witches Quotes
I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts — Margaret Thatcher
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. — William Shakespeare
Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't? — William Shakespeare
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won — William Shakespeare
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 because they were young and beautiful. — Andre Breton
I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations. — Sefi Atta
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 soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away. — Haruki Murakami
The Nature Of Witches Quotes
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it. — Terry Pratchett
Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy. — Tanya Luhrmann
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women. — Bella Abzug
Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead. — Terry Pratchett
Lion Witch Wardrobe Quotes
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe — C. S. Lewis
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly. — C. S. Lewis
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. — C. S. Lewis
Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you. — C. S. Lewis
He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion. — C. S. Lewis
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. — C. S. Lewis
But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there. — Reza Aslan
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny. — C. S. Lewis
My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. — Robin Williams
Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe Quotes
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. — C. S. Lewis
If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream. — C. S. Lewis
Why don't they teach logic at these schools? — Digory Kirke
If things are real, they're there all the time. — C. S. Lewis
[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
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one. — C. S. Lewis
I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey. — William Moseley
And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be. — C. S. Lewis
All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think. — C. S. Lewis
Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say. — C. S. Lewis
Witch Of Portobello Quotes
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. — Paulo Coelho
What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life? — Paulo Coelho
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are. — Paulo Coelho
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. — Paulo Coelho
All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning — Paulo Coelho
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. — Paulo Coelho
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best. — Paulo Coelho
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank. — Paulo Coelho
Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. — Paulo Coelho
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. — Paulo Coelho
Witch Doctors Quotes
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
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. — Mordecai Richler
The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. — Albert Schweitzer
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images. — Eduardo Paolozzi
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. — Geraldine Ferraro
Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete. — Matthew Parris
Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine. — Peter Schiff
... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have. — C. Wagner
To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line. — Frank Sinatra
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe
Witch Hunt Quotes
The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group – as if by magic – become witches. — Bret Weinstein
I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. — Mae West
Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. — Walter Kirn
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. — Bergen Evans
You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded. — Michael Scott
It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts... until they see a witch. — Jon Stewart
Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet? — Calvin Cheng
witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages. — Patricia J. Williams
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil. — Arthur Miller
Witch Trials Quotes
And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it. — Abigail Williams
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff. — Rob Zombie
I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials. — Eli Roth
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
That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. — Neal Stephenson
On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first. — Morgan Griffith
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents! — Stacy Schiff
Witchcraft Quotes
The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft. — John C. Bogle
Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you. — Gerald Gardner
A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster. — Jeremy Clarkson
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. — Jacob Bernoulli
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 government to its true principles. — Thomas Jefferson
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing. — Starhawk
That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine. — Johnny Mercer
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will. — Sandra Cisneros
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno
We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone. — Laurie Halse Anderson
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 on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? — Mark Twain
And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks. — J. K. Rowling
I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I found some beautiful blue fabric, so I made Blue Witches. My creative process is always like that. Organic, text, theme, subtext, each day evolving and trying to make strong, beautiful clothes. It's that simple. — Rei Kawakubo
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
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
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht
We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, “Sadie, you have an audition for a show called ‘Stranger Things’,” and I had just finished binge-watching it in a few days. — Sadie Sink
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. — Elizabeth Kim
People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists. — Dan Sullivan
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
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
A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you. — Cardi B
Hello new world, how’s it going? I’m here to wreck everything. — Markiplier
You can be one thing or two or three; you can be the beauty and the beast. — Alexi Pappas
Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
When the night gets dark let me be your fire. — Lisa Manoban
Who’s the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I’m the real queen! — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Women need to be less squeamish about making money. — Liz Truss
I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV. — Billie Joe Armstrong
In Conclusion
Quotes about witches often highlight the duality of their nature, portraying them as both dangerous and alluring. These quotes draw attention to the perceived power witches possess, with some emphasizing their ability to cast spells or work with dark forces. Others focus on the notion of witches as outsiders, often being misunderstood or feared by society. Through these quotes, we gain a glimpse into the complex and enigmatic world of witches, where imagination and reality blend together.
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