Best turns & madness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.”

Men Giving Littles Soul Turns Madness Wine Spots Vanity Idiot Indifference Bitterness Display Resentment Assassins Deformity

Book:The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes

Source: The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes

“For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.”

Should Looks Persons Book Ideas Play Stories Age Song Turns Causes Madness Mad Medical Behave Mad Person

Author:Margaret Atwood

“A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.”

Heart Ends Hands Beautiful Moving Turns Marriage Fire Quiet Consequence Madness Circles Cease Charm Accomplished Why Not

Book:Letters and Addresses,

Source: Letters and Addresses,

“I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!”

People Way Sometimes Enough Problem Turns Built Madness Anger Safety Illness Like Me These Days Heat Tension Destructive Milk Traits Fierce Soup Another Way Tantrums Unbalanced Valve

Author:May Sarton

“But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air and agony with words.”

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

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