Quotes About Eccentricity

Dr. Finch had drunk so long and so deep of his heady brew that his being was shot through with curious mannerisms and odd exclamations.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives – they're the ones you have to watch out for.

The world was big and full of weird things and strange people.

Everybody's got something weird about them," I said.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

I happen to like the strange ones, the driver said. People who look normal and live a normal life--they're the ones you have to watch out for.

He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.

Das ist schön bei den Deutschen: Keiner ist so verrückt, dass er nicht einen noch Verrückteren fände, der ihn versteht.

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity.

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, "Does anybody know a good tailor?", or "Gentlemen – I think there's a thief in the battery." He was the bane of the Regiment.

So that was it. Aunt Ada Doom was mad. You would expect, by all the laws of probability, to find a mad grandmother at Cold Comfort Farm, and for once the laws of probability had not done you down and a mad grandmother there was.

Flora pressed Rennett's hand graciously, and congratulated her upon her striking toilette, which had been borrowed from one of Mr Mybug's girl friends who drank rather a lot in one way and another and kept a tame boxer in her studio for the sheer love of the thing.

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I love that my friends are all freaks.

I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.