Lunatic Quotes
206 Lunatic quotes by 166 unique authors
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in…
— George Orwell
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
— Thomas Paine
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
— Ezra Pound
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
— William Shakespeare
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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud,…
— Emma Stone
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America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
— Matt Taibbi
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
— Kerry Thornley
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Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
— Rebecca West
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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
— Romola Garai
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Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent…
— Aldous Huxley
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
— George Orwell
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Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
— William Shakespeare
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
— Gregory Maguire
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When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry…
— C.S. Lewis
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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common…
— Umberto Eco
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A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up.…
— Nick Hornby
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
— Billy Joel
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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
— Bram Stoker
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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts…
— Dean Koontz
Who Wrote These Lunatic Quotes
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