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)

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

“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)