Strange

Famous quotes containing the word strange:

    “Now you courtly dames and knights,
    That study only strange delights,
    Though you scorn the home-spun gray
    And revel in your rich array;
    Though your tongues dissemble deep
    And can your heads from danger keep:
    Yet for all your pomp and train,
    Securer lives the silly swain.”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

    “Southern trees bear a strange fruit
    Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
    Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
    Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
    —Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)

    “Alone he rides, alone,
    The fair and fatal king:
    Dark night is all his own,
    That strange and solemn thing.”
    —Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)