Convinced Quote by Dodie Smith

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

— Paloma Faith

People are quite frequently eccentric.

— Jane Smiley

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

— Oliver Sacks

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

— Julian Clary

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

— Hanif Kureishi

“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.”

— Ben Macintyre

Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at…

— Stevie Smith

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That…

— John Stuart Mill

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

— Stephanie Mills

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

— Timothy Spall

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows...…

— Bill Bryson