Top 48 Quotes About Mad Woman
#1. Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies
#2. I then watched filing past and besieging me old men in search of easy revenue, young men in search of adventure to occupy their leisure. My successive refusals gave me in town the reputation of a 'lioness' or 'mad woman.' Who let loose this greedy pack of hounds after me?
Mariama Ba
#3. Mad woman on another tour;
Everything she is she spits out on the floor.
An old man tells me she's sicker than the rest.
God I've never been afraid like this.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#4. The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#5. The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
William Shakespeare
#6. The restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)
Jack Kerouac
#7. To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Boris Pasternak
#8. The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.
W. H. Auden
#9. When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?'
When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
Emmuska Orczy
#10. Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
George Eliot
#11. I deserve better - such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.
Meredith Duran
#12. Now please don't refer to yourself ass some woman I fuck occasionally because, quite frankly, it makes me mad, and you really wouldn't like me when Im angry.
E.L. James
#13. In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that foundation stone; chastity is their jewel, their centrepiece, which they run mad to protect, and die when ravished of.
Virginia Woolf
#14. Not that this woman would need chains to capture a man's attention under normal circumstances. Her milky skin,soft eyes,and that mad riot of reddish-gold corkscrew curls that gave her a pixie-like appearance would see to the task.
Karen Witemeyer
#15. He never made fun of her as her neighbors did. That was why she visited him. He felt in this mad, ugly woman five years his senior a comrade in apartness. He liked people who refused to recognize the world.
Yukio Mishima
#16. Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if we were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.
William Faulkner
#17. It was remarkable how Dean could go mad and then suddenly continue with his soul - which I think is wrapped up in a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road - calmly and sanely as though nothing had happened.
Jack Kerouac
#18. How could a woman who was that beautiful, who smelled that good, who had such perfectly lovely teeth and bright eyes, be so thoroughly, completely, entirely, stark raving mad?" ~ Robert Cameron
Lynn Kurland
#19. Had they both become unwilling participants in some sort of mad scientist's chemistry experiment to combine Man A with Woman B to see how quickly they'd combust?
Bella Andre
#20. With a sigh, Fearghus went and stood in front of her. "You are a mad bitch, Annwyl the Bloody."
"What other woman would put up with you, Fearghus the Destroyer?
G.A. Aiken
#21. Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.
Anthony Eden
#22. Daddy thinks that Mama is everything a woman should be: beautiful, clever, charming. Beauty has a way of making the bad things tolerable. When Mama tilts her green eyes at you, it's hard to remember why you were mad in the first place.
Jenny Han
#23. The wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes the wall has more mood than a woman.
George R R Martin
#24. I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
Carol Leifer
#26. There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.
J. Milton Hayes
#27. Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to
prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get,
that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian
Jiu-jitsu is.
Saulo Ribeiro
#28. A man ought to be able to be carried away by his feelings, he ought to be able to be mad, to make mistakes, to suffer! A woman will forgive you audacity and insolence, but she will never forgive your reasonableness!
Anton Chekhov
#29. This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.
Patrick Rothfuss
#30. I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
Mitch Hedberg
#31. The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Susannah York
#32. Dammit, woman! You're scent, your stupid bloody delicious scent lingering in every crevice of my body and my wardrobe, driving me nearly mad. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to have it so close, and still feel that it's out of your reach? Out of control?
Delilah S. Dawson
#33. Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
John Larkins
#34. When I look at Tom, I thank God that he found me, too, that I was there to rescue him from that woman. She'd have driven him mad in the end, I really think that - she'd have ground him down, she'd have made him into something he's not.
Paula Hawkins
#35. It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.
Orlando Bloom
#36. Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.
Philippa Gregory
#37. Amor es despertar a una mujer y que no se indigne.
(Love is when you wake up a woman and she is not mad at you.)
Ramon Gomez De La Serna
#38. Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately. Absolutely nuts. She was so mad at Jim O'Casey. She was so mad, she went into the woods and hit a tree hard enough to make her hand bleed. She cried down by the creek until she gagged.
Elizabeth Strout
#39. You and I both know that love is for children,' he said. 'We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.'
'Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,' Teresa replied. 'Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.
Maggie Stiefvater
#40. I am not mad because I'm a woman ... I'm mad because you're an asshole.
Margaret Atwood
#41. Why is it when a man gets mad, he's aaangry, but when a woman gets mad, it's just a tantrum? She paused, struck by what he'd said.
Linda Howard
#42. Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#43. All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
Max Frisch
#44. I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.
Kendall Hailey
#45. What did he say? You can't always pick your friends. Well, he's damn right there. I have two friends here: a fifteen year old who sees people in colours and a salsa-mad Dutch woman. I didn't pick them, they just turned up in my life, and I'm really glad.
Kirsty Eagar
#46. He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders, as if he'd been a naughty boy.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#48. I went up to the tower. I thought I might find the woman and the boy there, in bed together. Or the boy and his father, enjoying some quality time, a dead man and a mad boy chuckling and joshing and exchanging their stories of being dead and being mad.
Stephen Gregory