Charles Poore Quotes

3 Sourced Quotes

An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted.

Charles Poore

Historical theories are, after all, intellectual apple carts. They are quite likely to be upset. Nor should it be forgotten that they tend to attract, when they gain ascendancy, a fair number of apple-polishers

Charles Poore

Time can be nibbled away as completely as a tray of canapés in an irresolute fat man's reach, or grandly lost in victory like the great marlin in The Old Man and the Sea.

Charles Poore