30 Spooky Vintage Halloween Quotes


Vintage Halloween Quotes


  1. “When the spooks have a midnight jamboree/They break it up with fiendish glee/The ghosts are bad but the one that’s cursed/Is the headless horseman; he’s the worst/That’s right, he’s a fright on Halloween night!When he goes a joggin’ ‘cross the land/Holding his noggin in his hand/Demons take one look and groan/And they hit the road to parts unknown/Beware, take care he rides alone!”
  2. “Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.”
  3. “Be afraid … Be very afraid.”
  4. “The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” –Paula Guran
  5. “If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” –Douglas Coupland
  6. “Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!'” –Dexter Kozen
  7. “When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
    May luck be yours on Halloween.”
    ~Author Unknown
  8. “I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.”
  9. “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
  10. “May Jack-o-lanterns burn bright
    Of soft and golden hue
    Pierce through the future’s veil and show
    What fate now holds for you.”
    ~Author Unknown
  11. “Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.”
  12. ‘Tis now the very witching time of night,
    When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
    Contagion to this world.
    ~William Shakespeare
  13. “Three little ghostesses
    Sitting on postesses,
    Eating buttered toastesses,
    Greasing their fistesses,
    Up to their wristesses,
    Oh, what beastesses
    To make such feastesses!”
    — Anonymous
  14. “Oh look, another glorious morning. Makes me sick!”
  15. “Will you join us on the Eve
    When Jack-o’-lanterns flare?
    Ghosts and witches all insist
    That you be there! –Unknown”
  16. “Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
    – William Shakespeare
  17. “Old witch Mary, quite contrary,
    How does your garden grow?
    With moss and slime,
    and poisonous vine,
    and toadstools all in a row.” –Unknown
  18. “It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
  19. “‘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.” –Cleveland Coxe
  20. “Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…” –Nicholas Gordon
  21. “On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.” –Nick Gordon
  22. “We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” –Humbert Wolfe
  23. “Nothing on earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” –Steve Almond
  24. “There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” –Robert Brault
  25. “Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” –Mason Cooley
  26. “Ghosts and goblins come to play on October’s final day!” –Rusty Fischer
  27. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” –Elvis Duran
  28. “The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” – Paula Curan
  29. “Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” – Steve Almond
  30. “Halloween was the best holiday, in my opinion, because it was all about friends, monsters, and candy, rather than family and responsibility.” – Margee Kerr

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