“On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude.”

Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock - “On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt...” 1
Thomas Love Peacock - “On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt...” 2
Thomas Love Peacock - “On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt...” 3

Similar quotes

“Money might not buy happiness, I reflected, but it was a useful commodity, nonetheless.”

Diana Gabaldon
Read more

“I am by turns a petulant adolescent and a mature man, a melancholy loner and a wit telling actors their trade. I cannot decide whether I'm a philosopher or a moping teenager, a poet or a murderer, a procrastinator or a man of action. I might be truly mad or sane pretending to be mad or even mad pretending to be sane.”

Jasper Fforde
Read more

“Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad”

Graham Swift
Read more

“Ask us not whether we are right or wrong, happy or sad, sane or mad.”

Yone Noguchi
Read more

“Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.""Is that a famous saying?""Maybe if I say it often enough.”

Clive Barker
Read more