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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Mad |
| The man is either mad, or making verses. Horace.—Translated by Smart, Book II., Satire VII. Line 117. | 1 |
| The man’s as mad as his master! The strangest stranger that ever came to our house! Brome.—The Merry Beggars, Act V. | 2 |
| Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain? Shakespeare.—Othello, Act IV. Scene 1. (Lodovico to Iago.) | 3 |
| Sure the man is tainted in his wits. Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4. (Maria to Olivia.) | 4 |
| See that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (Ophelia after Hamlet leaves her.) | 5 |
| It shall be so; Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (The King resolving to send him to England.) | 6 |
| It is the very error of the moon, She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act V. Scene 2. (Othello to Emilia.) | 7 |
| That he is mad ’tis true; ’tis true, ’tis pity; And pity ’tis ’tis true. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Polonius to the Queen.) | 8 |
| I am not mad;—I would to heaven I were! For then ’tis like I should forget myself. Shakespeare.—King John, Act III. Scene 4. (Constance to Pandulph.) | 9 |
| Why, this is very midsummer madness. Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4. (Olivia to Maria.) | 10 |
| My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.) | 11 |
| Though this be madness, yet there is Method in it. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Polonius with Hamlet.) | 12 |
| By this time I am afraid the reader begins to suspect that he was crazy; and certainly when I consider everything, he must have been crazy when the wind was at N.N.E. De Quincey.—Walking Stewart, pa. xi. | 13 |
| By mine honesty, If she be mad, as I believe no other, Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense (Such a dependency of thing on things) As e’er I heard in madness. Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1. (The Duke on hearing Isabella’s complaint.) | 14 |
| Moody madness, laughing wild, Amid severest woe. Gray.—Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 8. | 15 |
| And madness laughing in his ireful mood. Dryden.—Palamon and Arcite, near the end. | 16 |
| O, that way madness lies, let me shun that! Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (Lear to Kent.) | 17 |
| There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad, Which none but madmen know. Dryden.—Spanish Friar, Act II. Scene 1. | 18 |
| With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander; With a burning spear, And a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander; With a night of ghosts and shadows, I summoned am to Tourney: Ten leagues beyond The wide world’s end; Methinks it is no journey! Anonymous.—The last verse of a Tom-a-bedlam Song in Disraeli’s Curiosities of Lit. Vol. 2, pa. 317. | 19 |
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