surprise quotes

   The Sound of Surprise.

-Whitney Balliett
  Title of book, much cited as a definition of jazz.

If you go down in the woods today You're sure of a big surprise If you down in the woods today You'd better go in disguise. For every Bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because, Today's the day theTeddy Bears have their Picnic.

-JohnW Bratton
  'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' (with  James B Kennedy).

Tell all theTruth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight TheTruth's superb surprise.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
c.1868  Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published1945).

He would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Just So Stories,'How the Leopard Got His Spots'.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load, Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

- Francis Thompson
  'A Judgment in Heaven', epilogue.