Quotes About Surprise

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. They apparently are getting remarkably rare.

Kobiety broni? si?, atakuj?c, a atakuj?, ust?puj?c nagle w najmniej spodziewanym momencie.

I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement. I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have all the surprise of candour.

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.

Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.

In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.

She was definitely the sort of girl who puts her hands over a husband's eyes, as he is crawling in to breakfast with a morning head, and says Guess who!

Something that might have been a very hard and knobbly leg of mutton smote Lord Emsworth violently behind the ear:the sun was turned off at the main: the stars came out, many of them of a singular brightness.

So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books.

The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.

It's and odd thing, but however much an oficionado one may be of mysteries in book form, when they pop up in real life they seldom fail to give one the pip.

You could have knocked me down with a feather,' said Lady Abbott, quite untruly. The feather had not been grown by bird that could have disturbed her balance for an instant.

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare - or if not, it's some equally brainy bird - who says that it's always when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

All the way here he was talking about what he was going to do if he ever found you again. And now you tell me he did find you. What happened? Didn't he eat you?' 'No, miss.' 'Probably on a diet.

Just when I thought my day couldnt get any worse, I saw the dead guy next to my locker.

Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?

ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?

ohmygoodNESS!

Ohmygod. Did hell just freeze over? - Zoey Redbird when Aphrodite LaFonte tells her parents that Zoey deserves to be leader of the Dark Daughters

Neferet fell smack on her butt.

It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.