“Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.”
“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”
“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself”
“It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”
“I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.”
“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”