On the eve of Halloween, we collected ten popular thematic quotes.

Something wicked this way comes

William Shakespeare

The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.

Paula Guran

It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus!

Hocus Pocus

They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk

On Halloween, what bothers some

About these witches, is how come

In sailing, through the air, like bats

They never seem, to lose their hats?

David McCord

From ghoulies and ghosties

And long-leggedy beasties

And things that go bump in the night,

Good Lord, deliver us!

Traditional Scottish Poem

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, ‘Never take candy from strangers.’ And then they dressed me up and said, ‘Go beg for it.

Rita Rudner

There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight

Unknown

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go

Back to their quiet graves below

Theodosia Garrison

Tis the night—the night

Of the grave’s delight,

And the warlocks are at their play;

Ye think that without,

Ye think that without,

But no, it is they—it is they!

Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: A Romaunt

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