Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mad Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , People Quotes , Mad Quotes

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Mad Quotes

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Writing Quotes , Mad Quotes

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Player Quotes , Mad Quotes

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Mad Quotes , Flying Quotes

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , People Quotes , Mad Quotes

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , People Quotes , Mad Quotes

A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out. It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Heart Quotes , Mad Quotes

An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Eye Quotes , Mad Quotes

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Names Quotes , Mad Quotes

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Mad Quotes

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , People Quotes , Mad Quotes

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Drunk Quotes , Mad Quotes

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Mad Quotes

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Mad Quotes

But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Iron Quotes , Mad Quotes

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Player Quotes , Mad Quotes