Skip to content

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.

— Angela Carter Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1998)

Another quote →

More quotes by Angela Carter

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Wise Children (1991)

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

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

The Bridled Sweeties (1977)

My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.

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

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

All Angela Carter quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Angela Carter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.