Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Black Cat.
The Home Quotes
My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. (1)
Violence Quotes
I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. (6)
Drugs and Alcohol Quotes
[…] through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance [I] had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. (6)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
The curtains of my bed were in flames. (10)
Justice and Judgment Quotes
When reason returned with the morning – when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch – I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had b...
Transformation Quotes
I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. (6)