Winding Stairs Quotes & Sayings

Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs. — Laurie Graham

...Leaning on her maid, she stole through the winding galleries, and lightly descending the stairs, entered the long hall, which terminated in a dark arched passage that opened into the chapel. This was a wild and gloomy structure: beneath it were the vaults which contained the ancestors of the earl of Dunreath, whose deeds and titles were enumerated on gothic monuments: their dust-covered banners waving around in sullen dignity to the rude gale, which found admittance through the broken windows. The light which the maid held produced deep shadows, that heightened the solemnity of the place. — Regina Maria Roche

To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne'er come down again. — Mary Howitt

Peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely: — James Joyce