Grotesques Quotes

8 quotes by 7 authors

• Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing… — Thomas Browne
• It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. — Mark Gatiss
• There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. — Thomas Browne
• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of… — Oscar Wilde
• The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of… — Lorrie Moore
• In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths… — Sherwood Anderson
• The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed… — George Orwell
• He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. — Simon Callow

Who Wrote These Grotesques Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 8 Grotesques Quotes as follows:

• 2 Grotesques Quotes by Thomas Browne
• 1 Grotesques Quote by Mark Gatiss
• 1 Grotesques Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Grotesques Quote by Lorrie Moore
• 1 Grotesques Quote by Sherwood Anderson
• 1 Grotesques Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Grotesques Quote by Simon Callow