No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointment to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born—nothing more.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Nations of great genius exhibit great patience.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
