Gargoyle Quote by Victor Hugo

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone…

— Victor Hugo

“Quasimodo then lifted his eye to look upon the gypsy girl, whose body, suspended from the gibbet, he beheld quivering afar, under its white…

— Victor Hugo

“You asked me why I saved you. You have forgotten a villain who tried to carry you off one night,- a villain to whom…

— Victor Hugo

“The presence of this extraordinary being caused, as it were, a breath of life to circulate throughout the entire cathedral. It seemed as though…

— Victor Hugo

“He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which the child…

— Victor Hugo

“I TEGO ARCANA DEI (BEGONE! I CONCEAL THE SECRETS OF GOD.)”

— Michael Baigent

“I think that when Lady Tamarind looks at you, she feels as the cathedral might if it suddenly remembered that once it had been…

— Frances Hardinge

“You talk about her as if she is the Notre Dame Cathedral!" "She is. And the Statue of Liberty and Abbey Road and the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat, And…

— Philip Larkin

“A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable…

— Emily Dickinson

“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone.”

— Jacqueline Carey