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Quotes About Mad

Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit? Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness? You're not going to go mad, she said firmly. Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.
~ David Eddings
Mad with terror, many even leaped into the deadly water of the river. 'We're not going to be able to get through that mob, Polgara,' Barak said.
~ David Eddings
It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.
~ William Shakespeare
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad!
~ William Shakespeare
What relish is in this? How runs the stream? Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
~ William Shakespeare
How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
~ William Shakespeare
If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.
~ William Shakespeare
Such a mad marriage never was before.
~ William Shakespeare
As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.
~ Heywood Broun
Mad as a dog. Mad as a god.
~ Holly Black
This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling mad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.
~ Lionel Shriver
This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling bad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.
~ Lionel Shriver
I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert's review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger.
~ Todd Phillips
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
This brought a fresh wave of giggling. I couldn't be mad, though. I was too grateful I hadn't lost three kids to Satan on my first night babysitting them.
~ Jess Lourey
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.
~ Terry Pratchett
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.
~ Kenneth Branagh
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
~ Kevin Spacey
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
~ Alison Bechdel
People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
~ Vaslav Nijinsky
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
~ Katharine Susannah Prichard
Sometimes I just want everything to stop for a bit and leave me alone in my head. Even the noise would be quiet by comparison. But migration is a mad dash. We have to go as fast as we can.
~ David Gerrold
Morning broke before the last song was finished. Lucien tried it over to a street-song of the day, to the consternation of Berenice and the priest, who thought that he was mad: — Lads, 'tis tedious waste of time To mingle song and reason; Folly calls for laughing rhyme, Sense is out of season.
~ Honore de Balzac
I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.
~ Hugh Jackman