285 Quotes About First-lines

I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia.

How very still you sit!

The course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground.

For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remained; and in some it vanished quite away with the spirit.

It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit.

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

Let me call myself, for the present, Willam Wilson

One view called me to another; one hill top to its fellow, half across the country, and since I could answer at no more trouble than the snapping forward of a lever, I let the country flow under my wheels.

I was not aware at first of the many discussions which had gone on about that window.