Quote by Edith Sitwell

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius…

— Edith Sitwell

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

Eccentricities of genius.

— Charles Dickens

“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to distinction, he…

— John Galt

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional…

— John Stuart Mill

“Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.”

— Dean Koontz

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late,…

— Thomas Watson, Jr

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

— Russell Smith

“Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny,…

— John Stuart Mill

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

People are quite frequently eccentric.

— Jane Smiley