Poe Quotes

55 quotes by 47 authors

• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis… — Vladimir Nabokov
• Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence… — Tennessee Williams
• But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to… — Tim Dorsey
• What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both… — Daniel Handler
• Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through… — Edgar Allan Poe
• It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak… — Seth Grahame-Smith
• I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would… — Tana French
• I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of… — Lauren Oliver
• How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said,… — Daniel Handler
• Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame… — John Cusack
• Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. — Giles Foden
• There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well,… — John Astin
• Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. — John Drinkwater
• Poe, R-Humble, said his Pakistan Foreign Aid Accountability Act would require the State Department to certify to Congress that Pakistan wasn't giving a sanctuary to… — Richard Dunham
• I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers and… — Hilarie Burton

Who Wrote These Poe Quotes

47 authors contributed a total of 55 Poe Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 8 Poe Quotes by John Astin
• 2 Poe Quotes by Daniel Handler
• 1 Poe Quote by Paul Valery
• 1 Poe Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Poe Quote by Sloane Crosley
• 1 Poe Quote by Dean Koontz
• 1 Poe Quote by John Lennon
• 1 Poe Quote by Julio Cortazar
• 1 Poe Quote by John Gardner
• 1 Poe Quote by Dario Argento
• 1 Poe Quote by Ray Bradbury
• 1 Poe Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Poe Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Poe Quote by Quentin Crisp
• 1 Poe Quote by Tennessee Williams
• 1 Poe Quote by S. T. Joshi
• 1 Poe Quote by Tim Dorsey
• 1 Poe Quote by Charles Portis
• 1 Poe Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
• 1 Poe Quote by Arthur Twining Hadley
• 1 Poe Quote by Seth Grahame-Smith
• 1 Poe Quote by Linus Pauling
• 1 Poe Quote by Tana French
• 1 Poe Quote by Hugo Gernsback
• 1 Poe Quote by Lauren Oliver