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  • Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. -- John Stuart Mill
  • Eccentricity is developed monomania. -- Bayard Taylor
  • Eccentricity is what's sexy in people. -- Rachel Weisz
  • Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere. -- Mason Cooley
  • Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in. -- Mason Cooley
  • Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself. -- Mason Cooley
  • Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have. -- Oliver Sacks
  • Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife! -- Georgette Heyer
  • Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it. -- Osbert Lancaster
  • Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress. -- Amit Kalantri
  • My eccentricity became direction. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
  • No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. -- Andre Maurois
  • If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity. -- Russell Smith
  • I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve. -- Daveigh Chase
  • Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. -- George Santayana
  • A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. -- Robert Frost
  • There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people. -- Rachel Weisz
  • My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. -- Martin Short
  • I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring. -- Stefano Gabbana
  • Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • 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
  • There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. -- John Noble
  • When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in. -- Suzy Menkes
  • The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. -- John Stuart Mill
  • My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland. -- Randy Newman
  • No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now. -- Tony Kaye
  • My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. -- Jaron Lanier
  • The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game. -- Ben Macintyre
  • We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd. -- Teju Cole
  • Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great! -- Sylvester McCoy
  • To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. -- Steven Brust
  • Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s. -- Suzy Menkes
  • Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity. -- Neil Simon
  • I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity... -- David Bowie
  • I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity. -- Roger Ebert
  • The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties. -- Andy Hargreaves
  • ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. -- Dodie Smith
  • Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
  • We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. -- Alec-Tweedie
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence. -- Samuel Johnson
  • [Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect. -- Robert Burns
  • Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational. -- John Muir
  • It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. -- John Dewey
  • The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look. -- Guido Palau
  • Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once. -- Chris Rose
  • At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city. -- Chris Noth
  • There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings. -- Dar Williams
  • Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy. -- James Hillman
  • I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action. -- Rex Stout
  • It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness. -- Sydney J. Harris
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