Acceptable Quote by Osbert Lancaster

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

— Lorraine Hansberry

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

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

— Oliver Sacks

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

— Stephanie Mills

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

— Bertrand Russell

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

— Alec-Tweedie

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages…

— Walter Lang

“Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Ben Macintyre

“We aren't eccentric, we're not bizarre. To each other, we're as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family.…

— John Irving