Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonin Artaud

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

Ben Okri

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

A. E. Housman

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Herman Melville

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

James Bryant Conant

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

Werner Herzog

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Cassandra Clare

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

William Shakespeare

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

Jay Asher

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

Heber J. Grant

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

Ezra Pound

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.