Eccentric Quotes

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

“I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.”
― John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste

“No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“He'sh mad?"
"Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money."
"Ah, then he can’t be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.”
― John Waters

“The problem is normal was'nt in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.”
― Julie Hockley, Crow's Row

“People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.”
― H.H. Munro (Saki), The Chronicles of Clovis

“You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.”
― Lori R. Lopez

“Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things
from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Whoever he was or whatever he was and no matter how different and crazy he seemed, he was not crazy.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“The history of progress is a history of freaks.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“If they were rich, they'd be described as eccentric rather than mentally ill.”
― Jack Heath, Headcase

“She’s a little lost girl in her own little world,
She looks so happy but she seems so sad, oh yeah,
Oh, oh, yeah.
She’s a little lost girl in her own little world,
I’d like to help her, I’d like to try, oh yeah,
Oh, oh yeah.

She talks to birds, she talks to angels,
She talks to trees, she talks to bees,
She don’t talk to me.
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas,
She talks to trees,
She don’t talk to me.”
― Joey Ramone

“Mary kept down the housekeeping bills to the very best of her ability, but meat was always dear, and she suspected the maid of cutting surreptitious slices from the joint and eating them in her bedroom with bread and treacle in the dead of night, for the girl had disordered and eccentric appetites.”
― Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Weird Stories

“The nice thing about getting old is that you can be as eccentric as you want, everyone expects it!”
― Nanette L. Avery

“In a famous passage, Mill explained

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. 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 vigour and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Yet, ironically, Mill himself could not tolerate unconventional men such as Comte, who often referred to himself as an 'eccentric thinker.”
― Mary Pickering, Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Volume II

“There's no progress without a dingaling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Yet lucky people don’t care about the past. Lucky
people don’t seek reasons and causes. They live in the present moment and go with the flow.”
― Mr. W, The Craziest Book Ever Written

“It is not my way,” he said, “to stop startling guests.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers

“Departures could be delightful. Pregnant with possibility. Perhaps this urge had something to do with having witnessed a very eccentric Professor father who would be so preoccupied with his internal life, these daily chores and routines just existed in the margins. One did not have to feed them, they had to feed one’s life- a life that added up to being more than a succession of everyday banal routines.”
― Sakoon Singh, In The Land of The Lovers

“Become the artist who designs your own life. While others look at life’s straight lines—their height and depth and width—bend the lines with your imagination, turning black and white into shades of blue and yellow and a tint of controversy.”
― Franklyn James, Tones of Transition: Rebirth Through Language

“[...] My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. [...]”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“She had poofy, teased-out brown hair that bounced off her shoulders with every high-flying skip and on her t-shirt was a spiraled sun with little wavy lines jumping off it to match the little wavy distortions in the air that were jumping off her. It was pure, unbridled energy and the sound of it hummed in his ears like when standing dangerously near a power transformer. Or maybe he was witnessing the origin story of the world’s first real superhero, and if so, she was probably going to draw her powers from the electromagnetic field itself.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising number of eccentric bachelors and unmarried women. People who travelled widely, made strange friends and lived unusual and transient lifestyles.”
― Sacha Coward, Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

“Yes, I advise wearing the silver gown that he sent,” he said plainly. “When one sends a gift, it is usually polite to make use of it. Of course, it may depend on the gift. For example, my third cousin three times removed—whom I know even less well than most of my family—once sent a poisonous frog as a gift . . . in the context of a pet and not usage as a weapon, I might add. In this instance, there was no use for the frog. But, in most cases, one does not receive poisonous frogs as gifts. And so, when the gift is indeed a gown and not a poisonous frog, one might follow the usual rules. Of course—”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers