Lunatic Asylums

Famous quotes containing the words lunatic asylums, lunatic and/or asylums:

“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Habitual Teetotallers: There should be asylums for such people. But they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they came out.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)