The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

-Anderson, Sherwood
  Winesburg, Ohio,'The Book of the Grotesque'.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  His Last Bow,'Wisteria Lodge'.

When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.

-Veblen,Thorstein
  Theory of the Leisure Class.