"The Purloined Letter" Quotes

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

You will need them - to help us to seek for the purloined letter.

The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more.

I had to use much of my finesse to avoid exciting the curiosity and conceit of the Minister.

I placed it in a drawing-room, where I knew he would be sure to see it.

It was clear to me that the letter had never been in that cabinet, but that all my conjectures respecting it were correct.

I never once doubted that I should ultimately find the letter.

There was no longer a possibility of the Prefect's treating it as a lost or as an abstracted thing.

The game of having lost a letter - is your own.

The letter is the letter of General Washington to General Lee.