Scary Halloween Quotes

• Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Halloween, Dark, Moon

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• I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

  Charles S. Swartz

  Fun, Halloween, Scary

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

  Richard Harris Barham

  Funny, Halloween, Ghost

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  Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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• Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
  All are on their rounds tonight;
  In the wan moon's silver ray,
  Thrives their helter-skelter play.

  Joel Benton

  Halloween, Moon, Play

  Joel Benton, “Halloween”

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• Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Night, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Halloween, Humor

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  Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Imagination, Scary

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 5

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• I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

  Joe Nichols

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Football

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• Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

  Dexter Kozen

  Halloween, Years, Voice

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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, Halloween, Innocence

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

  Erma Bombeck

  Relationship, Fun, Halloween

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• As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

  Nick Gordon

  Halloween, Night, Light

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• Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Time, Children, Halloween

  "Rock Me to Sleep" l. 1 (1860)

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• When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

  George A. Romero

  Scary, Zombie, Earth

  George A. Romero (2015). “Dawn of the Dead”, Simon and Schuster

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

  Steve Almond

  Beautiful, Halloween, Night

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

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• Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

  Dee Snider

  Halloween, Scary, House

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• Bring forth the raisins and the nuts-
  Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
  Along the moonlit way.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Halloween, Nuts, Way

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• You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

  Carolyn Wells

  Happy, Fun, Halloween

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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

  Halloween, Night, Thinking

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

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• This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Halloween, Sound

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

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe

  Halloween, Night, Delight

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

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• 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." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat."

  Rita Rudner

  Halloween, Doors, People

  "Jokes over easy: 1,386 delicious jokes from the best comedians" by Judy Brown, Barnes & Noble, (p. 112), 2006.

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• A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!

  Jerry Smith

  Halloween, Heart, Fire

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