A Quote by Stephen Fry

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

Stephen Fry

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Stephen Fry
British - Comedian
Born: August 24, 1957

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

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

Salvador Dali

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

Aaron Belz

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Publilius Syrus

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.

Eugene Jarecki

Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

Rick Yancey

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

Salvador Dali

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Terry Pratchett

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

Irving Stone

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

Charlotte Bronte

I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.

Christina Hendricks

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

L. Ron Hubbard

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

Salvador Dali

What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?

Laurie R. King

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

B. Traven

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