Dupin Quotes

#1. What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.

Vincent Buranelli

#2. Skyler often thought that the Seneca quotation Poe included was a dig at Dupin-or perhaps Poe himself: Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. "Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness." "That's for sure," said Skyler aloud. "Or more succintly put, 'No one likes a smart ass'.

Haley Walsh

#3. Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."
"True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggerel myself.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. Let him talk," said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. Residing in Paris during the spring and part of the summer of 18 - , I there became acquainted with a Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin. This

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

Franz Boas

#9. I want to be taken to a madhouse," said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. "I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came." "Why?" asked the unknown. "Because I want a little sane and wholesome society," answered Turnbull.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

Rosario Dawson

#11. I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Clint Eastwood

#12. Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Edgar Bergen

#13. The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

Max Lerner

#14. It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.

Peter Mayle

#15. A tear rolled down my cheek
And more came down
Until tears rolled down like a stream.
My eyes were blind with tears for you.
They washed my eyes till I could see.

Calvin O'John

#16. Poetry makes nothing happen.

W. H. Auden

#17. But I believe that girls need gumption, too, especially in this day and age. I believe you are a girl with gumption.

Anita Diamant

#18. You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

Bette Davis

#19. The river will take us where we need to go. To the End of the World."
"Great," Puck said, grinning and rubbing his hands. "Sounds easy enough. Let's just hope we don't fall off the edge.

Julie Kagawa

#20. She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.

Aaron Starmer

#21. Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

Charles Bukowski

#22. People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Rumer Godden