Famous quotes containing the words poe, singer and/or present:
“Whist Partner: Great Caesar’s Ghost. A woman! In the Club.
Phileas Fogg: My dear, I must ask you to leave these precincts at once. No woman has ever set foot in the Club.
Aouda: Why not?
Phileas Fogg: Because that could spell the end of the British Empire.”
—James Poe (1921–1980)
“Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale,
The sweetest singer in all the forest’s choir,
Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true Love’s tale:
Lo! yonder she sitteth, her breast against a briar.”
—Thomas Dekker (1572?–1632?)
“The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does “fame” become, especially of the literary sort. This species of “fame” a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)