Feigned Insanity

Famous quotes containing the words feigned and/or insanity:

    Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor drove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    We have psychologized like the insane, who make their insanity greater by striving to understand it.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)