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Quotes About Madder

Do we trust the idea of love, no matter how mad – from Don Quixote's love for the farm girl he renames Dulcinea del Toboso to Yossarian's love for the chaplain – because in the face of conformity, the madder the love, in some mysterious way the greater the commitment to freedom?
~ Richard Flanagan
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~ Thomas Otway
For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.
~ John Armstrong
There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
You are the dreamer, the madman in a madder world, our own midwestern Don Quixote without his Sancho, gamboling under the blue sky.
~ John Williams
The madder people. A lot of them seem to be leaders of countries or religions or armies. The real loonies.
~ Iain Banks
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
~ Evelyn Waugh