Quotes About Surprise

One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned: and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.

Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following manner. Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with:

Mrs. Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them. She had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner.

Engaged to Mr. Collins! My dear Charlotte—impossible!

The surprise of finding himself almost alone with Anne Elliot, deprived his manners of their usual composure...

Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...

Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

Every body else had something to say; every body was either surprised or not surprised, and had some question to ask, or some comfort to offer.

Mr. Darcy who took her so much by surprise in his application for her hand, that, without knowing what she did, she accepted him.

Mrs. Phillips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from their recent absence, were particularly welcome, and she was eagerly expressing her surprise at their sudden return home

Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood

The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.

Mrs. Phillips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from their recent absence, were particularly welcome, and she was eagerly expressing her surprise at their sudden return home, which

She was unfailingly delighted by the surprise of each new day.

The best things in life always find us when we're not looking for them.

surprised. Then everyone, by unspoken

Compared with Iowa, Kansas City was a strange world. The Halls where she worked was in the most elegant place she'd ever been at that point, a made-up town for shopping, a Fifth Avenue on the prairie (when she got to the real Fifth Avenue, she wasn't very impressed, because the Country Club Plaza had spoiled her).

I looked back over that field, and all across it you could see spider webs. This was quite amazing to me as I had just ploughed the whole field that day. A testimonial to the spiders' indestructability, I'd say.

The thing about endings is, they can begin quietly enough. That's how they sneak up on you.

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy. Grandma Mazur

The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.

You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms. Joe Morelli

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour.