Madmen Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Madmen
“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to read, but… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Hugo felt the world was hostile to his writing, he felt not only all its human inhabitants but its noises and diversions and ordinary clutter were linked against him, maliciously, purposefully, diabolically thwarting and maiming him and keeping him from his work. And I, whose business it was to throw myself between him and the world, was failing to do… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests on his poetic and dramatic output. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
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