Surprise

Famous quotes containing the word surprise:

    It’s such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
    That though the English are effete
    They’re quite impervious to heat.
    Noël Coward (1899–1973)

    So you’ll face me with a court of inquiry, eh, in England. Well, Mr. Christian, we’re a long way from England and what can happen on this ship before we get there may surprise even you.
    Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

    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.
    Václav Havel (b. 1936)