Witches Quotations

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.

Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.

Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.

. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

There is something at the heart of 'The Wizard of Oz' that is about feminine empowerment. I never set out to do that as a goal - write a musical about feminine empowerment. But the wizard, the male character, is a charlatan and a fraud. The witches have real power.

Waterboarding -- that's what America does to its prisoners now. Dunking them in water until they confess. Of course, you have to remember -- we uncovered a lot of witches that way. So, credit where credit is due.

These days, the witches are hardly old crones with twisted noses. They've got fishnets and you'd just want to jump in their cauldrons.

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels, Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms. In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat. Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

In the Middle Ages when people were convinced there were witches they certainly found them. This is a bit risky,

I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live