surprised quotes

Don't be surprised, If I demur, for, be advised, My passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised To toastThe Queen.

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  'An Open Letter to Blake and  Andrew, Editors, Contemporary British Verse, Penguin Books, Middlesex'. Heaney was complaining at his inclusion in the book edited by Blake Morrison and  Andrew Motion on the grounds of his Irish nationality.

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 31  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

He watched his restless hands, surprised they had remembered to come with him.

- Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) Pritchett
Mr Beluncle, ch.15.

Surprised by joyimpatient as the wind I turned to share the transportOh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? 928

-William Wordsworth
c.1812  'Surprised by joyimpatient as the wind', l.1^4 (published1815).The poet's second daughter, Catherine, who died inJune1812, is the'thee'referred to in the poem.