Gargoyles Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon…
— John Owen
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Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which…
— Sarah Dunant
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A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the…
— Richard Hamming
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In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.
— Keith David
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One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.
— Phil Ochs
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Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a…
— Terry Pratchett
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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like…
— Victor Hugo
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I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters…
— Russell Kirk
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When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.
— Saul Williams
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The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous…
— Ilona Andrews
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Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.
— Devon Monk
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So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten…
— Terry Pratchett
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Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues…
— George R. R. Martin
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The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick…
— Kim Harrison
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And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.
— Keith David
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But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
— Keith David
Who Wrote These Gargoyles Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 16 Gargoyles Quotes as follows: