Eccentricity Quotes

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Eccentricity refers to strange and unconventional behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being normal. Eccentricity is often associated with genius, giftedness, or creativity. Eccentrics are simply unconcerned by society's disapproval of their habits or beliefs and most often display extreme individualism. Hoe you enjoy our Eccentricity quotes.


The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. (Quote by - Julian Clary)
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
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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. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
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A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
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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. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. (Quote by - George Santayana)
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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. (Quote by - Martin Short)
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people. (Quote by - Rachel Weisz)
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. (Quote by - Steven Brust)
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. (Quote by - Joseph Brodsky)
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. (Quote by - George Santayana)
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
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Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. (Quote by - Unknown Author)
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