Quotes of: Madman Keyword

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and ...

Crome Yellow

There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.

French

Every madman thinks all other men mad.

Latin

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

Tales of the Madman Underground

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

French

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

The Madman and the Nun: and Other Plays

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Samuel Richardson

There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.

The Madman and the Nun: and Other Plays

Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

Tales of the Madman Underground

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

It is better to carry stones with a wise man than accept the meal of a madman.

Armenian

Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing.

Spanish

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.

The Madman's Daughter

So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.

Tales of the Madman Underground

I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he’d picked wild flowers like he used to when we’d visit cousins in the country.

The Madman's Daughter

April 43rd 2000 Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash.

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Believing in nothing except the truth of Montgomery, who for all his faults was as steady as the sea, as honest as the sun. My eyes watered with unexpected tears, and I kissed him harder, desperately. It wasn't a happy ending.

The Madman's Daughter

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.

Red Dragon

In the light of the crappy little lamp, all I was looking at was a frizzy mop of blonde hair and a bare back with one big angry red patch on it, but Jesus fucking God she was beautiful, and if you don't understand that, I'm sorry for you.

Tales of the Madman Underground

You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal." "I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.

Tales of the Madman Underground