381 Quotes by Angela Carter

For now my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I’d make my first investment.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff’s pillow – we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it’s been fun or it’s been not. So all cats have a politician’s air; we smile and smile and so they think we’re villains.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you’re faced with somebody whose needs won’t be put off.

Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but – who shall make the clown laugh?

She walked in technicolor.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with.

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion.