Gothic Quotes
105 quotes by 96 authors
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These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
— Jimmy Buffett
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape.…
— A. Hunter Dupree
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of…
— Adolf Hitler
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The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
— Oscar Wilde
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I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.
— Ashley Benson
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Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
— Andrea Barrett
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The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
— Roddy Doyle
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At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were…
— Michael Persinger
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love…
— Russell Kirk
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With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only…
— Matthew Pearl
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Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.
— Peter Murphy
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I…
— Diana Vreeland
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
— Ira Levin
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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt…
— Goldwin Smith
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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with…
— Roland Barthes
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No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage…
— Michael Parkinson
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What the Londoner sees in his mind’s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset,…
— John Betjeman
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Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a…
— Heidi Julavits
Who Wrote These Gothic Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 105 Gothic Quotes, led by these top contributors: