Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
I count on the kindness of strangers.
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.
Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.
I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.
A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.
Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.