The Perfect Stranger Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

Gordon Livingston

#3. He is both the Raffe I know and a terrifying stranger. He looks like a pissed-off demigod. I've only glimpsed him once in this perfect angel form.

Susan Ee

#4. The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger
so it be done for love, and not forostentation
do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I stood there, shocked. I'd never hugged a perfect stranger before, but maybe this was how people in California did things.

Penelope King

#6. To me you are detestable, disgusting - a stranger, yes, a perfect stranger!' She uttered that word stranger, so terrible to herself, with anguish and hatred.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

J. Michael Straczynski

#8. But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light.

Julie Otsuka

#9. It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

Mae West

#10. It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

Clayton Christensen

#12. And tell your wife whatever you want, but don't make promises you're not going to keep. And don't knock yourself out over it; you didn't invent infidelity.

Marc Fitten

#13. The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

Maurice Sendak

#14. I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

Brian Andreas

#15. I don't take gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody is perfect.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#16. The scriptures teach us the ways of the Lord. They answer questions about how to live today. They bring a light and a spirit into our lives that we can get in no other way.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#17. Trying to have your first book read when you're a perfect stranger feels like waving at people, in a dark room, when everyone is looking the opposite direction!
Painfully frustrating!!!

Charles Bonnaire

#18. It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.

Milton Jones

#19. Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

John O'Callaghan

#20. Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

Eleanor Catton

#21. I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.

Maddie Ziegler

#22. I was in the midst of an ocean of my fellow-men, and yet a perfect stranger to every one.

Frederick Douglass

#23. Sometimes a beautiful woman just needs a hard, slow fuck against a wall with a perfect stranger. I understand.

Olivia Cunning

#24. Amy dragged her eyes over Sethe's face as though she would never give out so confidential a piece of information as that to a perfect stranger.

Toni Morrison

#25. If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.

Ivor Bulmer-Thomas

#26. Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense.

Nikki Rowe

#27. I could see her smile. I wished I hadn't because it was the kind of smile she never gave to me. It was a smile for a boy who wanted to know her and never would. A smile for a girl who wanted to be like her and never could be. A smile for a perfect stranger.

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