Lunatic Asylum

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)

“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“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)