William Shakespeare on Halloween

If music be the food of love, play on.

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard1929–2007“Astral America” (p. 48)

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoken to.

Richard Harris Barham1788–1845