Welcome to our collection of bewitching quotes that delve into the mysterious world of witches. Throughout history, witches have captivated our imaginations, appearing in folklore, literature, and cinema as powerful and enigmatic figures. From the wicked witches of fairy tales to the wise and benevolent practitioners of magic, these quotes offer insights into the various perceptions and portrayals of witches across cultures and time periods.
Witches have long been associated with both fear and fascination, embodying concepts of magic, power, and the unknown. Their presence in stories often serves as a reflection of societal anxieties, beliefs, and desires, making them intriguing subjects for exploration. Whether portrayed as villains or heroines, witches often challenge conventional norms and offer alternative perspectives on power, morality, and the human condition.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that capture the essence of witchcraft, inviting you to ponder the mysteries and complexities surrounding these enigmatic figures. Feel free to use these quotes to adorn your social media posts, create captivating visuals, or simply to immerse yourself in the enchanting world of witchcraft.
In Trump’s world, men get to play by different rules. Even the witch hunt over Hillary Clinton’s emails exudes a double standard. George W. Bush ‘lost’ 22 million emails during his presidency. We can’t even go back and look at the communication regarding the decision to invade Iraq. Mel Robbins
I did ‘Beetlejuice,’ and it was a big movie, but it didn’t help my high-school experience. In fact, it made it worse. I was a freak and a witch. Winona Ryder
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics. Sloane Crosley
The character we’ve always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who’s actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She’s an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That’s a universal experience that everyone’s felt at some point in their lives. Marc Platt
‘The Blair Witch Project’ is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I’d seen like that. I didn’t even realize it was a damn movie! Corey Taylor
I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying – or the studios were saying – ‘We don’t know what to do with you.’ Meryl Streep
Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a Kitchen Witch is. Kelly Asbury
I’ve always thought Prince Charming in ‘Cinderella’ was the most boring role; I’d rather be the Wicked Witch. Jude Law
I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,’ I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am. Jo Beverley
You must remember that Endora is basically a good witch. She really doesn’t have a wicked bone in her magic finger. It’s just that she hain’t the patience to endure human follies and foibles. If you’re human you’re a slave. That’s the way she sees it. She’s a genius and she demands that quality in people as well as witches and warlocks. Agnes Moorehead
I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‘Supergirl.’ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‘Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?’ Dolly Parton
It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. Jordan Peterson
Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don’t need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise – the Wicked Witch. Richard K. Morgan
When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn’t know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset. Laura Amy Schlitz
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different. Sam Mendes
There have been movies like ‘Paranormal Activity’ or ‘Blair Witch Project’ in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn’t prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well. Thomas Bangalter
My mother picked my name with a spiritual intention: Destiny, ‘what was meant to be.’ She was a very special woman, and a gifted witch. Princess Nokia
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. E. Y. Harburg
I’m like a witch! You can’t kill me! Adam Rippon
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. Alice Walker
I did the ‘Wizard of Oz’ in third grade, and I was a witch. Cristela Alonzo
I’ve talked about this a lot, but ‘The Witch’ took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn’t make. Robert Eggers
I’ve never read ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,’ but his later works are about whether God is real. Brian Fallon
I think the aim – and certainly the aim of what I’ve tried to do since leaving – is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It’s to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine. David Kay
Three years into getting ‘The Witch’ financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, ‘I’m working on this script. It’s a ghost story in a lighthouse.’ I thought, ‘Damn, that’s a really good idea, I wish I’d had it.’ Robert Eggers
I am a big believer in sage. Chan calls me his Little White Witch. Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better. Jenna Dewan
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
When I was doing gymnastics, I was playing. It was fun. The ballet was not fun at all. Yes, I agree you must have discipline, but you don’t need to be a witch. You can’t teach a child like that. Three times a week, I went back to train as a gymnast. Then I was happy. Sylvie Guillem
There’s been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. ‘The Babadook’ is this perfectly paced, beautiful film. ‘The Witch’ is a beautifully made film. ‘Get Out’ is so intelligently written. I feel like there’s so many great things happening right now. Ari Aster
I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi. Lorraine Toussaint
‘Paranormal 1’ scared me because I didn’t know if it was real or what. ‘Blair Witch’ was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, ‘Oh crap, this could really happen to me.’ Marlon Wayans
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials. Fatema Mernissi
Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g ‘witch doctor’) to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels) and quantitative models (e.g design of modern aircraft). Dominic Cummings
‘The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there. RuPaul
I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I’m making ‘The Blair Witch Project’ – something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people. Ryan Gosling
Purple is the hue worn by a baby witch or warlock. Pink and blue are for mortals. Agnes Moorehead
Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing. Jonathan Dimbleby
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone’s nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn’t answer. At first, kids figured they’d just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year. Victor LaValle
I’ve heard people say that ‘The Blair Witch Project’ is a feminist movie because there’s a woman in charge and I’ve heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It’s just a movie. Heather Donahue
When I began ‘Wicked’, I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was ‘The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end. Gregory Maguire
I don’t find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch. Kangana Ranaut
I really like mugwort. It’s a witch plant and a purifier of energy. It’s considered to be very important and powerful in the Celtic and Scandinavian tradition. Kerli
You can be precious about something like ‘Blair Witch’ and say, ‘How dare you approach it as a sequel or remake’ or whatever, but its legacy was so tarnished by ‘Book of Shadows’ that someone had to come in and do something in the spirit of the original. Adam Wingard
Future generations of economists will look at the trickle-down theory in much the same way we now look at witch burning, slavery, and the Sinclair C5. John Niven
I want to play Lady Macbeth. I have a big chip on my shoulder about Lady Macbeth. People usually play her as this cold, Greek witch, but there’s no evidence of that in the text! I think her intentions are pure. Hari Nef
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly. Kate Williams
I was watching ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ – the episode where Sabrina and her friend make a vampire movie for college. I wanted to see if it would be fun to make a horror movie. Emma Kenney
‘Dead Witch Walking’ is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati. Kim Harrison
I’ve always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it. Lina Wertmuller
I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that – it still seems freaky. Rob Zombie
My first paid acting gig in the States was playing a lizard-transforming, shape-shifting witch in ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’, I believe. Stephanie Corneliussen
I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional – if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch. Petra Collins
It’s 2009, things change. I’m a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that’s not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see ‘Witch Mountain’ again. Kim Richards
I didn’t like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child’s head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family. Daniel Handler
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared. Lana Parrilla
I guess my favourite Disney film was ‘Snow White,’ which has a really dark moment when the evil queen turns into a witch and makes the poison apple. It was terrifying in the same way ‘Maleficent’ is. Stella McCartney
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I’m done with being a bitter witch. Adele
I feel like there’s a witch hunt by some film sites and people that immediately disregard something if it shows any sort of influence. Max Winkler
When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of ‘The Blair Witch Project’ – of the full, completed movie – went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed… Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was. Jason Blum
When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to ‘The Witch’s Tale’ and ‘Inner Sanctum’ on the radio. I went to see ‘Frankenstein’ in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me. Al Feldstein
My mom is not religious, but she’s a very spiritual, magical kind of lady. One time, when I was younger, my mom said she was a witch and that my grandmother was also a witch. It was late at night, and she was really sleepy, but I took it very seriously because I always wanted to go to Hogwarts. Perfume Genius
I’m really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it – that was just weird luck. Joshua Leonard
The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792. Edmund Morgan
I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn’t really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young – ‘Harriet the Spy’, ‘Charlotte’s Web’, ‘The Witch of Blackbird Pond’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Lauren Tarshis
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds’ features doesn’t get cast as the Wicked Witch. Alan Rickman
I love the fact that little kids think I’m a witch. A mum might come over and say ‘I’m sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you’re in ‘Harry Potter.’ I’ll say ‘That’s cool’ and take the kid aside and say, ‘I’m a witch. If you don’t listen to your mum, I’m going to haunt you!’ It’s brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework. Natalia Tena
It’s getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington – witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It’s a real set of carnival sideshows. Andrew Rosenthal
Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night? Stan Freberg
When I was 12, I thought I wanted to be a witch. Andreja Pejic
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house – I can’t believe I remember this – he said to them, ‘Who’s paying the mortgage on this haunted house?’ I thought that was really funny. Mindy Kaling
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
‘The Witch’ is feminist. Anya Taylor-Joy
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’ by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it – I was captivated! Rachel Tucker
The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina’s ‘Demon Sheep’ and Christine O’Donnell’s ‘I Am Not a Witch’ are so confusing, it’s almost like they were paid for by Democrats. Meghan McCain
‘The Blair Witch Project’ is a great movie. Bobcat Goldthwait
To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody. Dee Rees
What I hope is that I don’t just become ‘Peter from ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.’ I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor. William Moseley
The witch in ‘Snow White’ is a very scary image. Fred Willard
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
Sometimes I wake up and think, ‘I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,’ and other times I want to look like a witch from ‘Macbeth.’ Edie Campbell
I was reading William Shawcross’s biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix. Helena Bonham Carter
For a ‘GOT’ premiere, I wore a white dress by Antonio Berardi, which fitted beautifully. And I felt empowered by the Jenny Packham gown I wore for ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ premiere. That is the beauty of the designer – to help a woman or man feel that way. Rose Leslie
This thing has been studied to death by Republicans and Democrats: several committees, including in Congress, that have all said, ‘Yes, of course what happened was tragic, but Secretary Clinton was not in any way at fault,’ and what you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt. Julian Castro
I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays. Anya Taylor-Joy
When I was about ten years old, I was brought to London to watch a production of ‘The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.’ I think it was at Sadler’s Wells in maybe 2000. I watched it because my school was putting on a production of it, and it was the first school play that I was able to audition for a speaking part. George Blagden
My favorite movie out of the old movies was ‘Escape to Witch Mountain.’ We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director… it was a great experience. Kim Richards
Obviously, we were disappointed that neither ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ nor ‘American Ultra’ found bigger theatrical audiences. It’s important to note that our focus on risk mitigations limited our exposure on both films, and I’m pleased to report that ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ is doing well in a number of international territories. Jon Feltheimer
My skincare routine is pretty minimal. My must-have products are rose water, witch hazel, Embryolisse Creme, and Dr. Colbert’s Eye Cream. Kenza Fourati
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch’s brew. Anthony Hecht
My mum always said I devoured ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’ at the tender age of four, but frankly, I think that might be a touch of maternal exaggeration. Matt Haig
I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch. Montserrat Caballe
I’d studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire. Deborah Harkness
I’m a professional non-fiction reader, that’s what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved. Deborah Harkness
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives. Alison Jackson
I first read ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’ when I was a kid. And I think it was read to me. Me and my sister both had a copy and loved the books. Will Poulter
You’ve got to love a movie where a witch is your nanny. Robert Eggers
When I was little, the idea of waking up as a girl was like a fairytale. I had this idea that I’d meet a witch who would transform me. From the moment I found out that it was actually possible, I went to bed each night feeling that when it happens, it will be the best day of my life. And it was! Andreja Pejic
I was 4 years old and wanted to be the scariest witch anyone had ever seen. My mom painted my face green, darkened my eyebrows, and put a mole on my nose so I could fully look the part. Carmella
I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. Geraldine Ferraro
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. George Clooney