Definition of Strangely

Strangely

As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange.

In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.

In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.

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Strangely Quotations

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Saint Augustine

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
Paul McCartney

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
Anderson Cooper

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
David Bowie

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
Alvin Lee

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Frank Moore Colby

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.
Chester Brown

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
Trent Reznor

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
Arne Jacobsen

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.
Jim Cramer

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.
Hugh Grant

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
Hugh Mackay

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Yahoo Serious

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
Utada Hikaru

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Eugenio Montale

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
Philip Kaufman

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.
Joanna Southcott

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
Bennie Thompson

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
Donal Logue

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.
Robert Asprin

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Charles Edward Montague

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
Robert Bridges

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
Arthur E. Waite

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
Gilbert White

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
Fannie Flagg

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