Gothic Quotes

105 quotes by 96 authors

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
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
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
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
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
I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic. — Ashley Benson
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;â€”war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle
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
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
With James Reeseâ€™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
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
All my life Iâ€™ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. Itâ€™s exactly as if Iâ€™d said, â€˜I… — Diana Vreeland
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. — Ira Levin
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
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
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
What the Londoner sees in his mindâ€™s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset,… — John Betjeman
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

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