Famous quotes containing the words lunatic asylum, lunatic and/or asylum:
“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
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