Top Grotesque Quotes

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities:...

Grotesque Definition

(n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.

(n.) Artificial grotto-work.

But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that] certain limbs or elements of a figure are altered by borrowing from other specie...

And looking down on them, the other Londoners, those monsters who live in the air, the city's uncounted population of stone men and women and beasts, and things that are neither human nor beasts, fang...

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.