Famous Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Below are famous quotes by Edgar Allan Poe - US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849).

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

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

Return to authors.