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Surprise Quotes

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (George S. Patton)
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
Art must take reality by surprise. View quote
Françoise Sagan
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! View quote
Wallace Stevens
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. View quote
Robert Frost
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. View quote
Edward Hopper
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. View quote
Joseph Addison
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. View quote
Václav Havel
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. (Alan Turing)
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. View quote
Voltaire
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. View quote
Charles Morgan
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. View quote
Robert Frost
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. View quote
John Dryden
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. View quote
Alice Walker
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. View quote
Robert Browning
It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to. View quote
Henry Rollins
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect. View quote
Agatha Christie