"Sanity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... self-contempt, made her feel the need he had of her, the place she had taken in his life. But for her, what ear would have been open to his cries? And what hand but hers could drag him up again to a footing of sanity and self-respect? All through the stress of the struggle with him, she had been conscious of something faintly maternal in her efforts to guide and uplift him. But for the present, if he clung to her, it was not in order to be dragged up, but to feel some one floundering in the depths with ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... on LULU Who Greater Britain sways From distant Woolloomooloo To Nova Scotia's bays; Whose sumptuous urbanity, Combined with well-groomed sanity And freedom from ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 • Various
... the speaker with growing concern. But he still assumed sanity on the part of the reverend gentleman, and still felt considerable irritation ...
— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts
... the medium of personalities like these that Horace's message was delivered to the world of his time and to later generations. How far the finished elegance of his expression is due to their discriminating taste, and how much of the breadth and sanity of his content is due to their vigor of character and cosmopolitan culture, we may only conjecture. Literature is not the product of a single individual. The responsive and stimulating audience is hardly less needful ...
— Horace and His Influence • Grant Showerman
... ago, monsieur, you appeared to cast a doubt upon my sanity. Is it a case of the drunkard who thinks all the world ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
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