Quotes by Gothic I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. Amy Tan gothic stories kids Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken. Andre Malraux gothic broken beautiful Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. Andrea Barrett gothic evil dark I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic. Ashley Benson gothic chic phases The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable. Cassandra Clare gothic modern way I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it. Chaim Potok gothic self needs The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm". Constant Lambert gothic enthusiasm average Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic) Dave Eggers gothic musical kind The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society. David Punter gothic passion desire Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic. David Tennant gothic dust way Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles. Dorothy L. Sayers gothic wall branches I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. Emily Bronte heathcliff gothic destruction Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque. Frank Wedekind gothic kitsch form ...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage. Gail Carriger gothic red hair So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. George Saunders gothic childhood may Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. Ira Levin gothic magazines scene But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] Jane Austen gothic century england I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. John McGahern gothic printed-word church In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble. John Ruskin gothic noble views We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed. John Ruskin gothic healthy rose 12»