He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what…

“I didn't want to think about it. Indulging someone's insanity like this couldn't be healthy.”

— Katherine Pine

“There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

— Warren Zevon

“Should he plead the insanity defense or the alien-told-me-to-do-it defense?”

— Wesley Chu

“I don’t have much time, sir, but fortunately I have a lot of gin.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Insanity is something like drowning,’ said Sparrow. ‘You go under; you flounder without direction;”

— Frank Herbert

“PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!”

— Comic Strip Mama

'Insanity... I like it."

— Eoin Colfer

“Insanity is like a river. It has one direction, downwards.”

— Jayden Hawke

“My dear sir,’ said Emily, timidly, ‘what mean those tears?’—they speak, I fear, another language—they plead for me.”

— Ann Radcliffe

“I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back”

— Sonali Deraniyagala

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much…

— Charles Lyell

“If you tell me no, I will be silent. If you prefer, I shall never ask again. But you should know that I would…

— K.J. Charles

“CHORUS: What canst thou plead? OEDIPUS: A plea of justice. CHORUS: How? OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I slew without…

— Sophocles

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

— George Washington