Air Quote by John Ashcroft

The velvet dodges of the hypocrit

— Sylvia Plath

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

— Elia Kazan

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach…

— Tennessee Williams

“Hysteria, hostility and fear are optional.”

— Manish Pawar

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

— Siri Hustvedt

“And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

— David Addington

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

— Victor Hugo

“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it all up?…

— Alice Jamieson

Torture and cruelty are the words that come to mind when people think of the Tower. Here it was that the princes were murdered,…

— Lucy Worsley

“Beneath the haunted castle lies the dungeon keep: the womb from whose darkness the ego first emerged, the tomb to which it knows it…

— Leslie A. Fiedler