Quotes about Surprise

If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.

That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods…

Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

I would never say never. You never know what is going to happen.

What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

I really think this must be a man!" was Mr. Lorry's breathless reflection, simultaneously with his coming against the wall.)

The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!

Why, my girl,' cried Mr Meagles, more breathless than before, 'how did you come over?