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13 quotes from The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #1063 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
"For the love of God, Montresor!"
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I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.
"Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is merely nothing. Amontillado! You have been imposed upon. And as for Luchesi, he cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado."
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You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was.
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The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled.
It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!
"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!"
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I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.
At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled--but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk.