I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait waistcoats. – Bram Stoker Dracula, Chapter 20. Dr. Deward, who runs the lunatic asylum.
I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. – William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Act 4, Scene 2. A frightened and imprisoned Malvolio pleads with Feste that he is as sane as Feste the Fool.
Sanity is not statistical. – George Orwell 1984. Part 2, Chapter 9. Winston falls asleep murmering these words.
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it. – Nellie Bly
Running – and yoga, too – is my sanity and my saviour. It’s just finding the time to do it! – Jill Hennessy
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. – Robert Frost
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. – Robert McNamara