(56 quotes found)
“I'm not a Witch; I'm your wife.”
The Princess Bride
“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
“'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world”
William Shakespeare
“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”
Thomas Jefferson
“For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.”
Thomas Browne Sr.
“They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children”
Martin Luther
“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients.”
Thomas S. Szasz