Famous quotes containing the words lunatic asylum, lunatic and/or asylum:
“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“An earthly dog of the carriage breed;
Who, having failed of the modern speed,
Now asked asylum and I was stirred
To be the one so dog-preferred.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)