Perplexed Quotes
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"Enter, my friend, enter. How goes your trade?" "In all candor, not too well," said Cugel. "I am both perplexed and disappointed, for my talismans are not obviously useless."
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Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.
agnes mary clerke— Of the nature of any planetary system round the double star Alpha Centauri; p. 168.
But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, That the ship would not travel due West!
— 1876 The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the Second: The Bellman's Speech'.
Our style should be as a skein of silk, to be carried and found by the right thread, not ravelled and perplexed; then all is a knot, a heap.
Ben Jonson— Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund Burke— No. 1, volume v, page 286.
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
john donne— No. 48, preached upon the Day of St. Paul's Conversion, January 25, 1629.
A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.
samuel johnson— No. 14 (5 May 1750).
Though the managing ourselves well in this part of our behavior has the name good-breeding , as if a peculiar effect of education; yet... young children should not be much perplexed about it... Teach them humility, and to be good-natur'd, if you can, and this sort of manners will not be wanting; civility being in truth nothing but a care not to shew any slighting or contempt of any one in conversation.
john locke— Sec. 145 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
jack london— Chapter Twelve
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
alexis de tocqueville— Book One, Chapter XXI
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. It is the peculiar snare of the perplexed orthodox, and soon Mr. Brumley was in a state of nearly unendurable moral indignation with Sir Isaac for a hundred exaggerations of what he was and of what conceivably he might have done to his silent yet manifestly unsuitably married wife.
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), p. 299
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro . Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.
— Marc Chagall, in Richard Friedenthal From Blake to Pollock, Random House, 1963
* * Sighs Which perfect Joy, perplexed for utterance, Stole from her sister Sorrow.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter, line 249.
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered.
Edmund Burke— Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), Volume I, p. 516.
When your intellect transcends the mire of delusion, then you will attain to disgust of what has been heard and what is yet to be heard. When, perplexed by what you have heard, you stand immovable in samadhi , with steady intellect, then you will attain yoga .
— Krishna; Chapter 2, verses 52–53; Jeaneane D. Fowler translation
I am confound. (also quoted as I am perplexed.)
— Who: Aleister Crowley. British occultist, mystic, poet, mountain climber.
— This is open to debate, because some sources report Crowley dying alone, and still other that he said "Sometimes I hate myself". [5] [6]
perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope .
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book IV, line 1.
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, perplexed in the extreme: of one, whose hand Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, Richer than all his tribe: of one, whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.
— Act V, scene 2, line 383. ("Base Indian" is "base Judean" in first folio).
