Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

Ogden Nash

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Philip James Bailey

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

Philip K. Dick

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Philip K. Dick

Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

Philip K. Dick

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Philip K. Dick

It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.

Philip K. Dick

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Plutarch

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Plutarch

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Plutarch

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Paul Muldoon

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

A. R. Ammons

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

A. R. Ammons