“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

— Orson Scott Card , book Ender's Game

Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game

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American science fiction novelist 1951

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

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“They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.”

Tanith Lee book Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 100)

“Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch.
And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“Once in a night as black as pitch
Isabel met a wicked old witch.
the witch's face was cross and wrinkled,
The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.
Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,
I'll turn you into an ugly toad!”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/

“And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.'
Did she ever come out?'
Not yet.”

Gregory Maguire (1954) Novelist

“Turkeys are intelligent, social, curious, and sometimes even funny. I wish people were more like turkeys sometimes. … We're going to have a special celebration for turkeys this November, where we're going to hang out with turkeys, we're not going to eat them, we're just going to kind of chill, hang out, talk with the turkeys, eat a little veggies.”

Biz Stone (1974) American blogger; co-founder of Twitter

“Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone talks about turkeys and Farm Sanctuary” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmemxjLriUI, ad for Farm Sanctuary (18 October 2011), reported in “Twitter founder Biz Stone likes turkeys, wishes people were more like them” https://venturebeat.com/2011/11/12/biz-stone-likes-turkeys/, in VentureBeat.com (12 November 2011).

“The telephone rang like a spoiled brat.”

Ray Bradbury book The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

“As a child in North London it never crossed my mind that I would ever play the Wicked Witch of the East.”

Rachel Weisz (1970) English actress

Source: hellomagazine.com http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2013030911512/rachel-weisz-us-interview/

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

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