Fanatic Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. (Winston Churchill)
A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if only He knew the facts of the case. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. View quote
William Wilberforce
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. View quote
Dean Koontz
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. View quote
Aldous Huxley
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. View quote
William Butler Yeats
My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my country, which I adore. If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic... Since I joined the Catholic Church my sole object has been to reconcile my country to that Church which I believe to be the One True Church. View quote
Leonid Feodorov
One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position. View quote
Martin Niemöller
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! (Emil Cioran)
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. View quote
Oscar Wilde
But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. View quote
Thomas Moore
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic. View quote
Agatha Christie
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!" View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters. View quote
Debbie Macomber
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. View quote
Alan Ritchson
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. View quote
Alan Ritchson
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid. View quote
Alessandro Nivola
Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. (Esther Dyson)
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble! View quote
Etta James
I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time. View quote
Francesca Annis
I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
I'm a Star Wars fanatic. View quote
Matthew Vaughn