There's method in his madness

Cultural  

1. There is often a plan behind a person's apparently inexplicable behavior. Based on a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Example Sentences

Yet to paraphrase a line from the play, there’s method in his madness.

From Seattle Times

But there's method in his madness:

From BBC

Yet there’s method in his madness.

From New York Times

If he's mad, 'there's method in his madness,' as Walter Scott would have said.

From Project Gutenberg

As Milton says, 'There's method in his madness'—Shakespeare, was it, Morris?

From Project Gutenberg