Famous quotes containing the word mad:
“[T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, that weakness and imperfection is the perfection of a woman, that I am stark mad in love with ignorance; and thus shall I allure her by calling her [a] fool.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
“I am unbalanced but I am not mad with snow.
I am mad the way young girls are mad,
with an offering, an offering . . .
I burn the way money burns.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute
AndAre we then so serious?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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