The English like eccentrics. They just
don't like them living next door.
?Julian Clary
The world thinks eccentricity in great things
is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
?Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Eccentricity has always abounded when and
where strength of character has abounded;
and the amount of eccentricity in a society has
generally been proportional to the amount of genius,
mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
?John Stuart Mill
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap
that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
?Ambrose Bierce
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have
us believe, a form of madness. It is often
a kind of innocent pride, and the man of
genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded
as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are
entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced
by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
?Dame Edith Sitwell
