Halloween Quotes and Sayings

October 31st is always more than just a holiday. It is celebration time which means plenty of trick-or-treat activities and costume parties. Halloween is celebrated on the 31st of October in many countries such as the United States, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom etc. The history and origins of Halloween give a glimpse about the reasons behind this most celebrated day. Halloween is often associated with the specific parties where kids and adults plan laboriously over the Halloween costumes to be worn and the decorations to be planned. Parties also mean loads of fun Halloween games and yummy recipes all created keeping the theme in mind. Not only do we have specific costumes and games designed for this day, one can even witness quotes and sayings that revolve around this day. Here's a look at some Halloween quotes and sayings.

Quotes and Sayings about Halloween

Eat, drink and be scary. - Author Unknown

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moons silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
- Joel Benton

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

'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
- William Shakespeare

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. - From Scooby-Doo Movie

On Halloween
The thing you must do
Is pretend that nothing
Can frighten you
And if something scares you
And you want to run
Just let on like
It's Halloween fun.
- Author Unknown

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

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoken to. - Richard Harris Barham

Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodied have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
- William Motherwell

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. - River Phoenix

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- William Shakespeare

The witches' fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, "Who? Who? Who?"
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
"Scary Halloween to you!"
- Nina Willis Walter

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

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. - Mason Cooley

Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
- Virna Sheard

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. - Kim Elizabeth

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Henry David Thoreau.