“He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.”
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
On Saddam Hussein, undated.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Volume 4, Ch. 10
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.”
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
On Saddam Hussein, undated.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
“You mean to say he became mad deliberately?'
… Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.”
Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 9
Essais (1595), Book III
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
"Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe - William Blake)," lecture, Università Popolare, Trieste (February 27-28, 1912), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 179
Michael Andrew Screech (1926–2018)
Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998), p. 73