"Monomania" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Monomania had produced Great Things, in the form of a c/2 drive. It now proceeded to produce ...
— Subjectivity • Norman Spinrad
... he handed me, for the Emperor, a handful of little stones, which he called diamonds of great value. "There is more than a million in what I hand you," said he. The Emperor, whom I told of my visits, was exceedingly touched by the continued monomania of this poor unfortunate, whose every thought, every act, related to his old master, and who died without regaining ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... for the London estate, mother, that is all moonshine. What if it were gone altogether? It may be that it is that which vexes my father; but if so, it is a monomania." ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope
... is not my wife. The only woman who has the right to bear my name is one whom I married when I was a young colonial official. She was a rather eccentric woman, of feeble mentality and incredibly subject to impulses that amounted to monomania. We had two children, twins, whom she worshipped and in whose company she would no doubt have recovered her mental balance and moral health, when, by a stupid accident—a passing carriage—they were killed ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc
... equivocation is to the equivocation of ordinary men what a tropical fern is to the stunted representatives of the same species in England. It grows until the fowls of the air can rest on its branches. His mendacity in short amounts to a monomania. That a man with intensely irritable nerves, and so fragile in constitution that his life might, without exaggeration, be called a 'long disease,' should defend himself by the natural weapons of the weak, equivocation and subterfuge, when exposed to the brutal horseplay ...
— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen
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