Quotes About Eccentricity

Follow me," Myrnin said. "And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

It could be true that my interest in abstractions, which would have been forgiven first on grounds of youth and then on grounds of eccentricity, is now being forgiven on grounds of senility

For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose design statement was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it Portrait of a Dead Camel Dancing on the Roof of a Steambath.

Isn't Mr. Cecil Wooley the fattest, slittiest-eyed thing you've ever seen? And don't you suppose that being called Reverend Doctor Mootfowl is not a common phenomenon, and never has been?

My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword — that should tell you all you need to know.

brace yourself for feline taxidermy, disco balls, crystal chandeliers, and other oddities of decor.

She could easily make matters more bizarre than embarrassing.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness

I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine. What? Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.

Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity—or, at the worst, bad manners.

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.

If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don't do anything very strange!

Being crazy doesn't mean being mentally challenged. Maybe it just means being you...amplified a 100 times over.

Everyone is weird. Some people just try to act normal.

if you don't have any weird moments, you're weird

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

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.

That so few dare be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.