It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
Davy Crockett

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Andreas Capellanus

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Brad Holland

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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Timothy Radcliffe

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Arthur Miller

Never floss with a stranger.
Joan Rivers

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
Siobhan Fahey

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
Karel Capek

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Buffalo Bill

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
Patti LuPone

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

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.
Marie Corelli

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
Thomas More

The man in the street is always a stranger.
Mason Cooley

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long