Surprise & Delight Quotes

#1. Mammoth was more controlled than Valor and made a point to keep his attention hinged on Ivo - as if disgusted by Valor's eagerness. "Mammoth, greet the lady properly," Ivo said. To Cinderella's surprise and delight, Mammoth slid forward on his front paws, bowing to her.

K.M. Shea

#2. It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

Pat Frank

#3. Dear friend,
dear trembling partner, what
surprises you most in what you feel,
earth's radiance or your own delight?
For me, always
the delight is the surprise.

Louise Gluck

#4. We can find delight and surprise in the most mundane circumstances and the most generic of spaces.

Elaina Marie

#5. The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

Kate Klise

#6. Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Katrina Kenison

#7. There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.

Christine Downing

#8. There is always room in our budget for a little experimentation.

Beth Comstock

#9. If you are playing the rigged game of investing, the house always wins.

Robert Rolih

#10. The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Salman Rushdie

#11. May your season shine with delight and surprise.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#12. Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

Seth Godin

#13. All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

Jane Austen

#14. There is no Apocalypse.

Paul Fussell

#15. The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

Charles R. Swindoll

#16. Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

Erma Bombeck

#17. My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realized. I couldn't have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man was. And even so I didn't realize every quality of Bogie's on that day. He was to surprise and delight me continually in the ensuing years

Lauren Bacall

#18. The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

Nathan Myhrvold

#19. To my hens, I'm a two-legged giant who throws them corn and keeps stealing their eggs.

David Mitchell

#20. You can't be a human without seeing.

Junot Diaz

#21. First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Denis Diderot

#22. Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

Victor LaValle

#23. He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.

Phaedra Patrick

#24. What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Brendan Fraser

#25. A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers.

Ron Kaufman

#26. Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Mark Twain

#27. Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.

Leila Janah

#28. Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.

Dee Dee Artner

#29. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind

Emily Dickinson

#30. If it's dead, don't go digging it up every five minutes to check if there's a pulse. It's dead; walk away.

Richard Templar

#31. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing ... is discovering.

Robert Frost

#32. Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

John Lubbock

#33. You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,' so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.

Mark Schaefer

#34. After 9/11, I told the American people I would do everything in my power to protect the country, within the law, and that's exactly how I conduct my presidency.

George W. Bush

#35. I've spent my entire adult life working and climbing side-by-side with men, so trust me when I say that most male stupidity is a result of one of two things. It's either their egos, or it's that junk in their pants.

Pamela Clare

#36. Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

Sally Quinn