Strange

Famous quotes containing the word strange:

    The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    I dreamed that one had died in a strange place
    Near no accustomed hand;
    And they had nailed the boards above her face....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)