Quotes About Perplexed

Boris the Bewildered

I marvel at your power to be mistaken.

I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered!

It follows, then, that you and I cannot really expect to glide through life, coolly air-conditioned, while naively petitioning: "Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper appreciation of happiness but not deeper sorrow, joy in comfort but not in pain, more capacity to overcome but not more opposition; and please do not let me ever feel perplexed while on thine errand. Then let me come quickly and dwell with thee and fully share thy joy.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

I become facetious when perplexed. Right now I am perplex'd in the extreme.

What has made you come to such a sudden decision?" asked the perplexed Vassili (very nearly he added: "Fancy going travelling with a man whose acquaintance you have just made, and who may turn out to be a rascal or the devil knows what!" But, in spite of his distrust, he contented himself with another covert scrutiny of Chichikov, and this time came to the conclusion that there was no fault to be found with his exterior).

The sound of it made me feel like a cat grabbed by the tail and rubbed backward with a wet hand.

That's obviously, isn't it?' she said. 'A hawk is always a hawk, except'- and here she raised on heavy eyebrow and gave a mysterious smile - 'except when the hawk is a cabbage.' 'What?' Ernest said, grinning and game and clearly perplexed. 'Exactly,' Gertrude said.

Mind you, he looks a bit out of it, gazing around in confusion, as if his sax player's brain has been removed and replaced with a drummer's.