Eccentricities Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.
— Cliff Richard
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
— Teju Cole
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I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited to my eccentricities,…
— Mary Pope Osborne
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Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye…
— Duane Michals
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Eccentricities of genius.
— Charles Dickens
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Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.
— Cecelie Berry
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
— Saul Bellow
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Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to…
— Charles Dickens
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If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.
— Michael Jackson
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Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.
— Heather Graham
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Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.
— David Ogilvy
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There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim…
— Katherine Dunn
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull…
— Samuel Beckett
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Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.…
— Julian Barnes
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
— Al MacInnis
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Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
— Russell Smith
Who Wrote These Eccentricities Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Eccentricities Quotes as follows: