Colony Quote by Elizabeth Strout

“It was the puritan in him that couldn’t take it.”

— Ian Fleming

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do…

— Anonymous

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”

— J. Limbu

“Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.”

— Megan Hart

“You aren't insane, then." "Heavens no," I said. I eyed her. "You don't accept that." You see people that aren't there Mr. Leeds. It's…

— Brandon Sanderson

“There is madness in the mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Boy,' said Ralph, squinched up, balled up, feet against chest, eyes tight. 'England is no place to be a sinner.”

— Ray Bradbury

“There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.”

— Stephen King