witch quotes

His temper, naturally morose, has become licentiously peevish.Crossed in his Cabinet, he insults the House of Lords and plagues the most eminent of his colleagues with the crabbed malice of a maundering witch.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Of Lord  Aberdeen, whose disagreements with his Whig^Peelite coalition over the Crimean War eventually forced his resignation.

Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks a-crow.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Under Ben Bulben', stanza1. Collected in Last Poems (1939).