Surprise Quotes

I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise. ~ Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte "Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise." ~ The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ~ Emma by Jane Austen Maggie said that love was the flower of life, and blossomed unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it was found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ~ The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. ~ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton But Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly--something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone. ~ Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name. ~ The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle