Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Horror, detective fiction
General observation
Undated (common attribution)
Found in 1 providers: gemini
Cross Reference
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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
Strange & Unusual"The best things in life make you sweaty."
Strange & Unusual"It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession."
Strange & Unusual"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
Strange & Unusual"The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong)."
Controversial