Rex Stout Quotes

You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

I've always run by the hierarchy of "If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something."

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

She's as nutty as squirrel poo.

I'm the wacky one. Wacky. Wacky.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

If you're weird, it's good to be weird.

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.