Banshees Quotes

“She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, 'Am I not annoyed with them?' I asked too if he had ever seen the banshee. 'I have seen it,' he said, 'down there by the water, batting the river with its hands.' ("A Teller of Tales")”
― W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

“How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,
And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.
What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?
I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.
Your wife can’t be a banshee—
Or can she?”
― Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses

“Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go after you.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“I’m just me.’’ ‘’Exactly,’’ the three gray ghosts said together. ‘’You don’t have to believe in who you are. You just are.’’ Together they grinned.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“The Chattering Season by Stewart Stafford

Hear a fearsome banshee's wail,
From a dank bog or Celtic dale,
Like the pulling of the rat's tail,
In the whistle of a thrashing gale.

In this skittish son of Mc's room,
A death knell tolls out his doom,
A cursed shadow now does loom,
Her spirit bride's unwilling groom.

The stark evening's grim messenger,
She's a maelstrom's fatal passenger,
Howls from last breath's harbinger,
No dowry for this eternal dowager.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“Because Banshees don’t think much of medals!”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps