Arthur Gordon Pym

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

    When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings,
    And dandies, all are gone on the wind’s wings.
    —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)