What do the British have to say about eccentricity?
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.” (Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom) I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. (Paul McCartney) 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. (John Stuart Mill) There’s something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb – you’re an anomaly. But in London there’s always someone wilder and woollier. (Cornelia Parker, British artist) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Bertrand Russell) There’s not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what’s sexy in people.
