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Madman Quotes

Madman Definition

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Kerry Thornley

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan P. Smith

I am not a madman or a nut.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

I'm not a madman.
Ray Nitschke

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
Tim Robbins

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose it's place.
Evel Knievel

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Robbie Coltrane

Only the madman is absolutely sure.
Robert Anton Wilson

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
Graham Swift

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emile M. Cioran

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Salvador Dali

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
Paul Verlaine

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Charlotte Bronte

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

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
An Wang

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France

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

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