Discover the best quotes and phrases from the book The Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe.
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen ME."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"Would a madman have been so wise as this?"
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night..”
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.”
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
“For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night..”
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"It was a low, dull, quick sound – much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief --oh, no! --it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
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