Edgar Allan Poe Murders In The Rue Morgue Quotes & Sayings

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. — Edgar Allan Poe

To look at a star by glances - to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly - is to have the best appreciation of its lustre - a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it. — Edgar Allan Poe

By undue profundity, we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue — Edgar Allan Poe

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found. — Edgar Allan Poe