Mad Quotes

2424 Mad quotes by 1562 unique authors

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? — Douglas Adams
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! — William Shakespeare
Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ… — Matt Groening
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad! — William Shakespeare
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely… — Edgar Allan Poe
I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed… — Henry David Thoreau
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.… — John Steinbeck
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. — Paulo Coelho
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of… — Wendell Berry
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe
I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society… — Sylvia Plath
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their… — Emile M. Cioran
In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been… — Jeanette Winterson
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke. — Susanna Clarke
..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he… — Susanna Clarke
Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy… — John Steinbeck
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was… — Ann Brashares
Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. — Stephen Fry
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in… — Gregory Maguire

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