Gothic Quotes

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
Shia LaBeouf

Good, Dark, Maybe

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.
Avril Lavigne

Black, Big, House

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

Baseball, America, Old

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Principle, Infinity, Imaginable

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.
George Saunders

May, Makes, Childhood

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
Terry Eagleton

History, Writing, Rich

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
Roddy Doyle

Enjoy, Books, Written

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
Kelly Osbourne

Hate, Rock, Try

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki

Important, Quality, Buildings

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.
Karen Russell

Reading, Weird, Writers

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
Amy Tan

Respect, Loved, Bible

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.
Ashley Benson

Phase, Edgy, Chic

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

Love, Before, Poor

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.
Nikki Reed

School, Different, Hair

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 the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Goldwin Smith

Cannot, Religious, Church

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Good, Literature, Writings

My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Funny, Experience, Fun

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Funny, Humor, Writing

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.
Tyson Chandler

Love, Consider, Pieces

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
Guillermo del Toro

Others, Sense, Story

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.
John Corry

Great, Stars, Flying

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
Garth Ennis

Time, Book, Far

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Truth, Days, Film

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.
Richard Fleeshman

Music, Pretty, Listen

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Kenneth Clark

Next, Process, Logical

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
Gianni Agnelli

War, Political, Before

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
James Wyatt

Long, Country, Forgotten

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
Ira Levin

Before, Wanted, Magazine

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Gothic Definition

James Joyce

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us