Lunatic Asylums

Famous quotes containing the words lunatic asylums, lunatic and/or asylums:

    “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)

    “Habitual Teetotallers: There should be asylums for such people. But they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they came out.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)