"The Cask of Amontillado" Quotes

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

I must not only punish but punish with impunity.

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps.

In pace requiescat!

He had a weak point—this Fortunato—although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.

The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.

In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock.

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.

The voice said—'Ha! ha! ha!—he! he! he!—a very good joke, indeed—an excellent jest. We will have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo—he! he! he!—over our wine—he! he! he!'