The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them. – Prince Of Wales Charles
Thou strange piece of wild nature! – Colley Cibber
The English like eccentrics. They just dont like them living next door. – Julian Clary
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. – Johann von Goethe
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. – Rose Macaulay
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. – H. L. Mencken
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. – John Stuart Mill
So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the Kings highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? – Laurence Sterne
