Arthur Gordon Pym

Famous quotes containing the words arthur, gordon and/or pym:

    Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
    I have not flatter’d its rank breath, nor bow’d
    To its idolatries a patient knee.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one’s mind.
    —Barbara Pym (1913–1980)