Best Passerby Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Danielle Reynolds had passed through so many towns that her footprints stopped leaving marks.”

Lonely Contemporary Wanderer Footprints First Lines Passerby

Source: Taking Root

“I’m looking for you in the bare corridor where my shadow is the only passerby harmonizing an unsettling whisper: echoed through my chiming thoughts From the poem 'Looking For You”

Poetry Poem Thoughts Shadow Thought Poetry Quotes Poems Echoes Shadows Chimes Echo Whisper Passerby Shadow Quest Quotes Bare Looking For Harmonizing

Author:Munia Khan

“A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to 'weirdies' of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.”

Humor London Iris Murdoch The Black Prince Londoners Passerby Onlookers Weirdies

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.”

Ifs Men Self Speak Race Saws Happened Ears Institutions Deception Confused Nonsense Fabric Offended Self Deception Untruth Idiom Presumptuous Vacuous Passerby

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?”

Ifs Thinking Should Names Worry Ass Marketplace Resent Insulted Passerby

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.”

Found Vision Mark Sentences Pavement Punctuation Punctuation Marks Passerby

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.”

Money Beggar Begging Reproach Get Money Passerby

Author:Mason Cooley

“Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.”

Looks Kids Rooms Situation Suspects Passerby

Author:Raheem Jarbo

“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”

Thinking Said Two Important Sometimes Together Beautiful Dies Three Courses Behinds Like You Ordinary Empty Rose Glasses Screens Butterfly Caterpillars You Re Beautiful Passerby

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.”

Long Said Courses Father Silence Painful League Pretending Casual Magnitude Referee Passerby

Author:Jeanne Birdsall

“With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.”

Madness Inconvenience Passerby

Book:Entertaining Mr Sloane

Source: Entertaining Mr Sloane

“You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.”

Thinking Beautiful Dies Like You Ordinary Empty Rose You Are Beautiful Passerby

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any other pedestrians. He was impressed by Alyss's grasp of the local language. "It means 'pardon me,'" Alyss replied, but then a shadow of doubt crossed her face. "At least, I hope it does. Maybe I'm saying 'you have the manners of a fat, rancid sow.”

Mean Doe Said Faces Language Doubt Streets Shadow Locals Fats Manners Impressed Pardon Pedestrians Pardon Me Passerby

Author:John Flanagan

“He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a passerby, he was in a place where everything, not only the land, was open. People would feel free to talk, and he was free to listen. To carry a little of them as he went.”

People Feels Littles Made Mistake Accepting Journey Land Walking Understood Made It Strangeness Passerby

Author:Rachel Joyce

“If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.”

Ifs America Film Kings Lucky Police Cameras Rely Boxing Passerby

Author:Don King

“Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two."”

World Want Said Two Matter Whole Three Boys Streets Cry Son Whole World Abraham Walnuts Passerby

Author:George Sweeting

“In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.”

Christ Outcast Passerby

Author:Caryll Houselander

“When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.”

“I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.”

Life Hands Time Streets Minutes Corners Hats Timing Begging Life Time Street Corners Passerby

Author:Bernard Berenson

“At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.”

Firsts Moments Next House Sin Masters Ships Fragile Thread Spiders Visitors Stout Passerby

Book:Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life