Quotes and Sayings about Eccentricity
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Society, Eccentricity, Sanity)
"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
- Andre Maurois
(Related: Eccentricity)
"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."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Society, Time, Genius, Courage, Danger, Eccentricity, Now)
"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."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Society, Genius, Character, Courage, Strength, Eccentricity)
"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
- George Santayana
(Related: Design, Eccentricity, Paradise, Heresy, Hobbies, Individuality)
"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
- Martin Short
(Related: Mother, Absurdity, Eccentricity)
"There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people."
- Rachel Weisz
(Related: People, Eccentricity, Hollywood)