Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I haven't lost my head yet.

If there is one rule I have, it is you have to remain level-headed.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

I don't get caught up in the moment.

I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

I'm cool under pressure. Cool as a cucumber, actually, eerily so. My friends and family comment on it. I think I get it from my father, the quintessential smooth operator.

I don't celebrate really crazy.

I am not the sort of character to get carried away.

I'm quite reasonable and level-headed.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

No man in his senses will dance.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have Mencheres break out the invisible straitjacket again. I haven't gone crazy. I just didn't understand until now." He still looked like he was debating having Mencheres lay the power whammy on me, so I sat down by Kira in a very deliberate manner, folding my hands in my lap. There. Didn't I look calm and sane?

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.