Stranger's Quotes
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"Whatever my husband's faults may be, it can only aggravate the evil for me to hear them from a stranger's lips."
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More Stranger's Quotes
For nature, heartless, witless nature, Will neither care nor know What stranger's feet may find the meadow And trespass there and go, Nor ask amid the dews of morning If they are mine or no.
— 1922 Last Poems, no.40.
That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.
penn jillette— "Free Celebrity Nudes!". Penn's Columns. Penn & Teller (October 15, 1997). Retrieved on 2008-06-29.
No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. 1961
anna akhmatova— Translated in Poems of Akhmatova (1973) by Stanley Kunitz and Max HaywardNo, not under a foreign heavenly-cope, and
Not canopied by foreign wings
I was with my people in those hours,
There where, unhappily, my people were.Translated by D. M. Thomas
A stranger's rose is but a thorn.
isaac leib peretz— In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.
Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.
Anthony Trollope— The New Zealander (Oxford, 1965), p. 73.
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
— Kenneth Grahame, in The Wind in the Willows p.206
That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.
— Penn Jillette (October 15, 1997). "Free Celebrity Nudes!". Penn's Columns. Penn & Teller. Retrieved on 2008-06-29.
