"You say you want to be my friend, yet you seem to think I am a kleptomaniac.

I used to have trouble enough with my number eighteen and lip stick and the bunch of near-lady kleptomaniacs that the manager made a great mistake taking on the road in the last show I was with.

Madman N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite^, candidate for Bedlam, raver^, madcap, crazy; energumen^; automaniac^, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c (low spirits);; crank, Tom o'Bedlam. dreamer &c 515; rhapsodist, seer, highflier^, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico [Sp.]; exalte [Fr.]; knight errant, Don Quixote.

We have all heard of peculiar thefts from time to time, and the records of stolen stoves and other heavy articles seem to show that few things are sufficiently bulky to be absolutely secure from the peculator or kleptomaniac.

"When a poor woman steals she's an out-and-out thief; but when a rich woman steals she's a kleptomaniac.

It is the same sort of trouble which afflicts a kleptomaniac.

The kleptomaniac is generally recognized as being a well-defined class of the insane.

The kleptomaniac, however, is generally a rich or influential woman.

She steals something she does not need, and she is therefore held to be a kleptomaniac and not responsible.

The poor woman who steals something she actually needs is not a kleptomaniac.

I have no doubt that the rich woman who could not resist shop-lifting is a kleptomaniac.

The kleptomaniac finds herself in a position where her emotions and her feelings are too strong for her judgment and inhibitions.

If she's a kleptomaniac, it's very likely lying about somewhere in the house.

LIBRI-CARRUCCI, COUNT, Italian mathematician; professor at Pisa, but obliged to resign for his liberal opinions and take refuge in France, where he was made professor at the Sorbonne, was a kleptomaniac in the matter of books (1803-1869).