. . . but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.
Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_. ) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)
I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it.
