Architecture Quote by Christopher Wren

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

— John McGahern

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most…

— John Ruskin

“Arriving in the town of Princeton in the full flowering of fall, he could not help but gush: “Everything is gothic,” he wrote to…

— Owen Strachan

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever…

— Goldwin Smith

“I believe that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness; 2. Changefulness;…

— John Ruskin

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we…

— Victor Hugo

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and…

— John Ruskin

“He was a fundamentalist – a pragmatic one perhaps, but a fundamentalist nonetheless, for whom all the failures of the ideal were due to…

— Patrick McGuinness

“He and his fellow pastors attacked the public schools for teaching “immorality” and “secular humanism.” But what bothered pious members of his congregation was…

— Frances FitzGerald