Quotes by : Edward Gorey

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am....

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly....

The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried....

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies....

A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually....

On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course....

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really....