"Queerness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... effort is required to remember the distinctive philosophical systems advocated by the respective writers. To the students these philosophers represent a group of peculiar people differing one from the other in their degrees of "queerness." One system is as far removed as another from the life that the student experiences; no system helps him to find himself. An introductory course in philosophy should begin with the problems of philosophy; it should have its origin in the reflective and speculative problems of the student ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper
... I'll rub your nose in the mud!" and then, as they thought, philosophising further on the queerness of girls in general, the boys departed to ...
— The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale • Laura Lee Hope
... explained that he found it too hot to sleep below, so had come up on deck in the hope of being able to cool off a bit prior to having another try. He fell into step alongside me, and began to talk in a low voice, presently turning the conversation to Kennedy and the queerness of his seemingly rooted conviction that we should be attacked. I let him talk on until he appeared to have said all that he had to say upon the subject and was about to go below again, when I said ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood
... experience of the much-courted and a little spoiled beauty. Being, indeed, a "lady nowise bitter to those who served her with good intent," she reflected, with a kindly light in her eyes, that it was all part and parcel of the beetle's man's amiable queerness. ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... is queer, too. If she wasn't, she wouldn't stay at this Orphan Asylum, just to help us children, and doing it as cheerfully as if she were happier here than she would be anywhere else. If her staying isn't queerness, ...
— Mary Cary - "Frequently Martha" • Kate Langley Bosher
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