Eccentricity Quote by Charles Stross

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those…

— Richard Ford

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

— Saul Bellow

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon…

— Thomas Sowell

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

— Osbert Lancaster

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

— Yvon Chouinard

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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…

— Edith Sitwell

“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the…

— Edith Sitwell

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

— Anonymous

“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness. The more…

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

— Andre Maurois

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry