(13 quotes found)
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact”
William Shakespeare
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave”
Bertrand Russell
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog”
Henry Louis Mencken
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“nut, perverted, lunatic, stalker and so forth.”
Keith Butler
“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.”
Henry Ellis
“Sometimes people gather around and say that guy has something to say, but in most cases you're the raving lunatic talking to five people. How much time do you want to spend talking to five people?”
David Holmes
“hysterical lunatic and loose tyrant.”
Fidel Castro
“Lunatic Wind: Surviving out the Storm of the Century”
William Price