„He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.“

— Jane Austen
„We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.“
— Jane Austen
„When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„It was queer. All over England young men were eating their hearts out for lack of jobs, and here was he, Gordon, to whom the very word 'job' was faintly nauseous, having jobs thrust unwanted upon him. It was an example of the fact that you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.“
— George Orwell