At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveler sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there.

— Angela Carter

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

— Angela Carter

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.

— Angela Carter

Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELERS.

— Angela Carter

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

— Angela Carter

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

— Angela Carter

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

— Angela Carter

...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

— Angela Carter

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

— Angela Carter