Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry”

“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true”

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”

“I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence”

“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

“In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.”

“Mans real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

“The generous Critic fannd the Poets fire, And taught the world with reason to admire”

“To be thoroughly conversant with a mans heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.”

“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”

“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”

“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”

“In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.”

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them”