Quotes about Eccentricity

The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

Occasionally she would come to church, stalking unconcernedly up the aisle to a prominent seat. She never put on hat or shoes on such occasions, but when she wanted to be especially grand she powdered face, arms and legs with flour!

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

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 impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

You think you're being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager's nose?

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

Genius is full of trash.