Halloween Quotes

There are very few quotations directly relating to Halloween, but here are a few memorable words and phrases related to the subject:

  • "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear"
    - Mark Twain

  • "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

  • "What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade
    Invites my my step, and points to yonder grave"
    - Alexander Pope

  • "Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
    And then thou must be damned perpetually.
    Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, that time may cease and midnight never come.
    - Christopher Marlowe

  • "Greater is our terror of the unknown"
    - Titus Livius

  • "At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
    Back to their quiet graves below."
    - Theodosia Garrison

  • "None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear"
    - Ferdinand Foch

  • "First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
    - Franklin D. Roosevelt