Halloween Quotes - Page 3

• Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it’s like an excuse for Halloween everyday.

  Gwen Stefani

  Band, Want, Excuse

  "Gwen Stefani Rocked The Sheer Trend Back In The ‘90s" by Amanda McGowan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Greatness, Mountain, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

  Steve Almond

  Beautiful, Night, Finals

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Strong Emotions, Scary

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, eBookIt.com

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• The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Art, Reality

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

  Drew Carey

  Thinking, Mirrors, Faces

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• If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

  Douglas Coupland

  Courage, Years, Costumes

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight.

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe

  Night, Delight, Graves

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1842). “Halloween: A Romaunt”, p.13

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• A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

  T. S. Eliot

  Baby, Wall, Wings

  Waste Land (1922) pt. 5

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• On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Stars, Humor

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• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

  Eric Hoffer

  Clever, Fear, Mean

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Thinking, Dead Poets Society

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

  Lorna Luft

  Hollywood, Looks, Made

  Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• 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!

  Jack Prelutsky

  Kings, Queens, Doors

  Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks

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• I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.

  M. R. James

  Sleep, Night, Laughing

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.70, OUP Oxford

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• Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

  David Letterman

  Holiday, Men, Shopping

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• I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.

  Screamin' Jay Hawkins

  Lying, Hocus Pocus, Spooky

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• Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.

  Michael Almereyda

  Skeletons, Skulls, Zombie

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

  Nick Gordon

  Sweet, Innocence, Treats

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• In the night, imagining some fear,
  How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Bears, Easy

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Funny, Ghost, Speak

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• Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Happy, Party, Born

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• Tis the night - the night
  Of the grave's delight,
  And the warlocks are at their play;
  Ye think that without
  The wild winds shout,
  But no, it is they - it is they.

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe

  Night, Thinking, Wind

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1842). “Halloween: A Romaunt”, p.13

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trust, Technology, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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