Witch quotes
93 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful."
"The witches do not know the origin of their cult."
"God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch."
"I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business."
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"Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman."
"I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me."
"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"
"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."
"Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure."
"Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight."
"You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one."
"We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface."
"It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch."
"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?"
"I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of."
"Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil."
"The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy."
"I'm not witch. I'm your wife."
"First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought."
"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."
"Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."
"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them."
"His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation."
"If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch."
