Departure Quote by Ellen Terry

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is....

— Ellen Terry

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

— Temple Grandin

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of…

— Samuel Johnson

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

— Rupert Everett

I try to be eccentric, but I'm cognizant of my responsibility.

— John Popper

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

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

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

— Bertrand Russell

I totally understand I'm an eccentric person; I'm not going to claim to be a normal person.

— Augustus Sol Invictus

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