Eccentricity Quotes
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Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
— Honore De Balzac
I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.
— Rebecca McKinsey
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
— Edith Sitwell
Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
— Neil Simon
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
God is no stranger to strangers or to strange people.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
New Age eccentricity could only take you so far before you wandered into mentally ill territory.
— M.M. McLaughlin
I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
— Daveigh Chase
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
— Ambrose Bierce
Eccentricity is one syndrome of genius;it seldom needs a cure. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.
— Stefano Gabbana
Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.
— Dean Koontz
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
— Andy Hargreaves
Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.
— Jenny Offill
Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]
— Shirley Hazzard
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity ... my children aren't buying it.
— Alice McDermott
Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
— Georgette Heyer
There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.
— James K. Morrow
The most beautiful lives, to my mind,are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle, and without eccentricity.
— Michel De Montaigne
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
— Mason Cooley
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
— Robert Frost
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
— Alec-Tweedie
There is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!
— Agatha Christie
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
— Bertrand Russell
Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.
— Sara Sheridan
Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.
— Bruce Robinson
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity.
— Joseph Brodsky
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
— Jules Verne
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
— Osbert Lancaster
Eccentricities of genius.
— Charles Dickens
Eccentricity is not a psychiatric disorder.
— Bill Dedman
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
— Rachel Weisz
One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no one wants that, you know.
— Camilla Lackberg
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
— David Bowie
My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.
— Amit Kalantri
Did her faint eccentricity of manner mask something more serious, some fundamental cognitive problem?
— Robert Galbraith
She felt certain she could make the trip in a quarter hour on Emery's paper glider, but he insisted that the world wasn't ready for such eccentricity.
— Charlie N. Holmberg
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
— Martin Short
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
— George Santayana
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
— Bayard Taylor
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.
— Ben Macintyre
There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
— Mason Cooley
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
— Mason Cooley
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
— Sara Sheridan
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
— Alfred Bester
My eccentricity became direction.
— Jean Paul Gaultier
