Quotes of: Poe Keyword

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

William Congreve

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

William Falconer

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

William Dean Howells

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Wilfred Owen

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

William Shenstone

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

William Shenstone

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

Zig Ziglar

In one picture, the pool was half hidden by a fringe of mace- weeds, and the dead willow was leaning across it at a prone, despondent angle, as if mysteriously arrested in its fall towards the stagnant waters. Beyond, the alders seemed to strain away...

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Civilization and Its Discontents

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Civilization and Its Discontents

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Cold Comfort Farm

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

The Captive & The Fugitive

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The Captive & The Fugitive

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

The Captive & The Fugitive

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Collected Fiction

Haven't you enough money?' For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.

Cold Comfort Farm

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Collected Fiction

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

The Changeling

-Ouve esta música? É a expressão da minha vida: uma partitura admirável, estragada por um horrível, por um infame executante...

A Confissão de Lúcio