Top 33 Quotes by Angela Carter

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.