Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Love is a credulous thing.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

’Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.