--- title: "17 Ifs Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe" description: "17 Ifs quotes by Edgar Allan Poe. Plus more from Edgar Allan Poe and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/edgar-allan-poe-315_catchy_if-a-man-deceives-me-once-shame-on-him-i_2021946.jpg" --- > [If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-a-man-deceives-me-once-shame-on-him-if-he-deceives-me-twice-shame/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/edgar-allan-poe-315_catchy_if-a-man-deceives-me-once-shame-on-him-i_2021946.jpg) > [If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-you-run-out-of-ideas-follow-the-road-you-ll-get-there/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a3/edgar-allan-poe-315_ideas_if-you-run-out-of-ideas-follow-the-road_1880933.jpg) > [If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-you-have-never-been-at-sea-in-a-heavy-gale-you-can-form-no-idea-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/edgar-allan-poe-315_action_if-you-have-never-been-at-sea-in-a-heavy_1818829.jpg) > [“If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-i-could-dwell-where-israfel-hath-dwelt-and-he-where-i-he-might-not/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/edgar-allan-poe-315_edgar_if-i-could-dwell-where-israfel-hath-dwel_2233675.jpg) > [Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/life-is-for-the-strong-to-be-lived-by-the-strong-and-if-need-be-taken/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/edgar-allan-poe-315_earth_life-is-for-the-strong-to-be-lived-by-th_2269206.jpg) > [If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-in-many-of-my-productions-terror-has-been-the-thesis-i-maintain/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/edgar-allan-poe-315_germany_if-in-many-of-my-productions-terror-has_2513122.jpg) > [If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-the-propositions-of-this-discourse-are-tenable-the-state-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/edgar-allan-poe-315_all-things_if-the-propositions-of-this-discourse-ar_2984342.jpg) > [Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/always-keep-a-big-bottle-of-booze-at-your-side-if-a-bird-starts/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/edgar-allan-poe-315_bigs_always-keep-a-big-bottle-of-booze-at-you_1203850.jpg) > [If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-any-ambitious-man-have-a-fancy-to-revolutionize-at-one-effort-the/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7b/edgar-allan-poe-315_ambition_if-any-ambitious-man-have-a-fancy-to-rev_889054.jpg) > [The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/the-most-natural-and-consequently-the-truest-and-most-intense-of-the/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84c/edgar-allan-poe-315_affection_the-most-natural-and-consequently-the-tr_2585350.jpg) > [If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-we-examine-a-work-of-ordinary-art-by-means-of-a-powerful/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/349/edgar-allan-poe-315_absolute-truth_if-we-examine-a-work-of-ordinary-art-by_283487.jpg) > [If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-any-ambitious-man-have-a-fancy-to-revolutionize-at-one-effort-the-2/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43c/edgar-allan-poe-315_ambition_if-any-ambitious-man-have-a-fancy-to-rev_2520469.jpg) > [I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-might-refer-at-once-if-necessary-to-a-hundred-well-authenticated/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ae/edgar-allan-poe-315_baltimore_i-might-refer-at-once-if-necessary-to-a_2047181.jpg) > [There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/there-is-then-no-analogy-whatever-between-the-operations-of-the-chess/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/edgar-allan-poe-315_analogies_there-is-then-no-analogy-whatever-betwee_174811.jpg) > [If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-i-venture-to-displace-the-microscopical-speck-of-dust-on-the-point/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/edgar-allan-poe-315_astronomy_if-i-venture-to-displace-the-microscopic_164259.jpg) > [I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-fashion-the-expression-of-my-face-as-accurately-as-possible-in/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/503/edgar-allan-poe-315_arise_i-fashion-the-expression-of-my-face-as-a_2733037.jpg) > [“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-because-our-reason-violently-deters-us-from-the-brink-therefore/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f8/edgar-allan-poe-315_abyss_and-because-our-reason-violently-deters_599211.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Edgar Allan Poe > [“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/from-childhood-s-hour-i-have-not-been-as-others-were-i-have-not-seen/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/there-is-no-passion-in-nature-so-demoniacally-impatient-as-that-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/to-vilify-a-great-man-is-the-readiest-way-in-which-a-little-man-can/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/a-skillful-literary-artist-has-constructed-a-tale-if-wise-he-has-not/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/for-eyes-we-have-no-models-in-the-remotely-antique/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/during-the-whole-of-a-dull-dark-and-soundless-day-in-the-autumn-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/those-who-dream-by-day-are-cognizant-of-many-things-that-escape-those/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-have-said-that-the-sole-effect-of-my-somewhat-childish-experiment/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-all-my-days-are-trances-and-all-my-nightly-dreams-are-where-thy/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/other-friends-have-flown-before-on-the-morrow-he-will-leave-me-as-my/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/to-the-right-and-left-as-far-as-the-eye-could-reach-there-lay/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/men-die-nightly-in-their-beds-wringing-the-hands-of-ghostly/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-the-raven-never-flitting-still-is-sitting-still-is-sitting-on-the/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-was-forced-to-fall-back-upon-the-unsatisfactory-conclusion-that/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/for-the-moon-never-beams-without-bringing-me-dreams-of-the-beautiful/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/edgar-allan-poe/#itemlist", "name": "17 Ifs Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If a man deceives me once, shame on him; 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