«Умеренный убийца»
Believe me, it's not the imaginative people who become insane. It's not they who are mad, even when they are morbid. They can always be woken up from bad dreams by broader prospects and brighter visions — because they are imaginative. The men who go mad are unimaginative. The stubborn stoical men who had only room for one idea and take it literally. The sort of man who seems to be silent but stuffed to bursting, congested—
Четыре праведных преступника (1929)
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Madmen are always serious; they go mad from lack of humour.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
Исключительная изобретательность Еноха Оутса
We ought not to have all gone mad at once. We ought to have taken it in turns to go mad. Then I could have been shocked at his behaviour on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and he could have been shocked at my behaviour on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. But there is no moral value in going mad when nobody is shocked.
Охотничьи рассказы (1925)
"Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself."
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)