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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.