Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Cunning and Cleverness Quotes
The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis. The constructive or...
Justice and Judgment Quotes
The evening edition of the paper stated that the greatest excitement still continued in the quartier St. Roch -- that the premises in question had been carefully re-searched, and fresh examinations...
Foreignness and 'The Other' Quotes
It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself u...
Awe and Amazement Quotes
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies a capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind st...