"I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard……" — Edgar Allan Poe

"I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief."

— Edgar Allan Poe

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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not…
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
Grammar is the analysis of language.
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man…
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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More Blackguard Quotes

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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce
Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to… — Edgar Allan Poe
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps… — Charles Caleb Colton
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say,… — George Bernard Shaw
Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but… — Patricia Briggs
The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life… — Catherynne M. Valente

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