The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by James L. Petigru

1 quotation from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Of Behaviour. O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks; He comes-I see his glaring eyes; Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone! - fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain, -I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be. MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS ("Monk Lewis")-The Maniac. My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole State is one vast insane asylum.— filed under Insanity
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