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. . . SURPRISE see: "UNEXPECTED" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves. --Willa Silbert Cather (18731947) American novelist. _Shadows on the Rock_ [1931] Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In _The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries_ [Pub. by the German Publication Society, 1913] p. 379. While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork. --Fran Lebowitz (1946 ) American humorist. Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. --Leon Trotsky (18791940) Russian revolutionary. _Diary in Exile_ [1935, first pub 1958] When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so, of course, I was surprised. --Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951) Austrian philosopher. _Culture and Value_ - Going unexpectedly into the parlor of their house one day, Mrs. Webster discoved her husband embracing their maid. 'Noah, I am surprised!' she exclaimed. Webster released the maid and reassumed his professional dignity. 'No, my dear,' he corrected his wife, ' it is *I* who am surprised; you are merely astonished.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] {Noah Webster (17581843) American lexicographer} - I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back. --P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (18811975) English humorist; American citizen from 1955. _The Inimitable Jeeves_ [1923] -- A famous author was autographing copies of his new novel in a department store. One gentleman pleased him by bringing up not only his new book for signature, but two of his previous ones as well. My wife likes your stuff, he remarked apologetically, so I thought Id give her these signed copies for a birthday present. A surprise, eh? hazarded the author. Ill say, agreed the customer. Shes expecting a Mercedes. ----- gobsmacked or gobstruck (adj.) U.K. Extremely surprised or shocked (slang) nonplus (verb) [nahn-'plκs] To place someone at a loss as to what to say, do, or think.  . . see: "DEFEAT" see: "GIVING UP" see "WAR & PEACE" for other related links Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Speech in House of Commons [June 1940]. ----- capitulate [kuh-PICH-uh-layt], intransitive verb To surrender under agreed conditions  SUSPICION . . see: "DISTRUST" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links I begin to smell a rat. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615] 1.4.10, tr. Peter Anthony Motteux and John Ozell [1743] To hear a famiIiar [a local, lay executive of the Inquisition] utter the words 'In the name of the Holy Inquisition' is to be instantly abandoned by father, mother, relatives, and friends. For no one would dare to take up his defense, or still less to intercede for a man about whom these words had been spoken, for fear of himself becoming suspect in matters of the faith. --Juan Alvarez de Colmenar _An Annal of Spain and Portugal_[1741], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 335. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Middlemarch_ [1871]; Book VIII, Chapter 44. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking at his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. --Augustus William Hare (17921834) British essayist. Whoever ... is overrun with suspicion, and detects artifice and stratagem in every proposal, must either have learned by experience or observation the wickedness of mankind, and been taught to avoid fraud by having often suffered or seen treachery; or he must derive his judgment from the consciousness of his own disposition, and impute to others the same inclinations which he feels predominant in himself. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ #79 (English twice-weekly journal 1750-1752). - Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; Maxim 32. Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. - Suspicion often creates what it suspects. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _The Screwtape Letters_ [1941], "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" God help that country where informers thrive! Where slander flourishes and lies contrive, To kill by whispers! Where men lie to live! God help that country by informers fed, Where fear corrupts and where suspicion's spread, By look and gesture, even to the dead. --Archibald MacLeish (18921982) American poet and public official. _The Black Day_ GLOUCESTER: Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Henry VI_ [15901591] The Terror isolated and stupefied the deputies just as it did ordinary citizens. On entering the Assembly each member, full of distrust, watched his words and actions, lest a crime be made out of them. And indeed everything mattered: where you sat, a gesture, a look, a murmur or a smile. --Antoine Claire Thibaudeau (17651854) French politician. (On the Terror of 17931794.) ----- inkling (noun) Faint idea: a vague idea or suspicion about a fact, event, or person . . see: "CURSING" see: "OBSCENITY" see: "PROFANITY" see "COMMUNICATION" for other related links The day of the jewelled epigram is passed and, whether one likes it or not, one is moving into the stern puritanical era of the four-letter word. --Noλl Annan (19162000) English historian and writer. In the House of Lords [1966]; quoted in George Greenfield _Scribblers for Bread_ [1989]. Bullshit! --Mel Brooks (1926 ) American actor, writer, and director. Reply to Playboy interviewer who commented "You have been accused of vulgarity", quoted in Maurice Yacowar _The Comic Art of Mel Brooks_ [1981]. Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. --Robert Burton (15771640) English scholar, cleric, and author. _The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [16211651] The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization. --John Cohen (b.1911) British businessman, In "Observer" [21 Nov. 1965]. Swear-words are neutral; they only become objectionable when someone is offended by them. The art of good manners (as well as bad manners) is knowing who will be offended by what. --John Rae (19312006) English novelist. _Letters from School_ [1987] - The blasphemous words whereof Arabella was found guilty were spoken in great passion occasioned by the spilling of some scalding pitch upon one of his feet... By an act passed in Maryland, 30 Oct. 1704, to punish Blasphemy, for the first offense the offender is to be bored through his tongue and fined 20 pounds sterling to H.M. [Queen Anne] towards defraying the County charge where such offense was committed, or if ye party hath not an estate sufficient to answer that sum, then to suffer six months imprisonment ... the said Charles Arabella in having been bored through the tongue and lain in prison six months has thereby fully suffered ye penalty of the Law for such his offense ... The premises considered, if H.M. shall judge him a fit object of her royal compassion and shall be graciously pleased to order that he be released out of prison. --Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Dartmouth, secretary of state, Whitehall, [19 December 1710] - ^ A devout Catholic, [Loretta] Young frowned on unseemly behavior of all kinds, and particularly disapproved the use of bad language in the workplace. It was generally understood that there was to be no swearing by anyone within miles of Loretta's delicate ears, a tall order considering that in the movie business even the child actors cursed like sailors. To enforce this edict, Loretta instituted her infamous 'curse box,' requiring an immediate donation (to be forwarded to one of her Catholic charities) by anyone on the set uttering a forbidden epithet. This provoked one of the most durable of [Robert] Mitchum anecdotes. In the pithiest version of the story, an assistant explained to Bob how the curse box worked, with its sliding scale of penalties. 'It's fifty cents for "hell," a dollar for a "damn," a dollar-fifty for "shit." ' 'What I want to know is,' said Mitchum, in a voice that could be heard throughout Oregon, 'what does Miss Young charge for a "fuck"? --_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Films, Film Stars and Film-Makers" ^ . . see "THE SENSES" - For a... Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down The medicine go down-wown The medicine go down Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down In a most delightful way --Richard Sherman, lyric, "A Spoonful of Sugar", from _Mary Poppins_ [1964] - An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character. --Lydia Huntley Sigourney (17911865) American poet & teacher. If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) American writer and philanthropist. [Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher.] ----- treacly [TREE-klee], adjective: 1. Like, or composed of, treacle. 2. Overly sweet or sentimental. ;void(0)) SWIFT (JONATHAN) . . Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. see "AUTHORS" see "PEOPLE" for related links He possessed the Talents of a Lucian, a Rabelais, and a Cervantes, and in his Works exceeded them all. He employed Wit to the noblest Purposes, in ridiculing as well Superstition in Religion as Infidelity, and several Errors and Immoralities which sprung up from time to time in his Age; and lastly, in the Defence of his Country, against several pernicious Schemes of wicked Politicians. Nor was he only a Genius and a Patriot: he was in private Life a good and charitable Man, and frequently lent Sums of Money without Interest to the Poor and Industrious; by which means many Families were preserved from Destruction. --Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist and dramatist. Obituary of Swift [(1667-1745)] in _True Patriot_ [5 November 1745]. . . see "PEOPLE" for related links Italy for thirty years under the Borgias had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but produced Michelangelo, DaVinci, and the Renaissance. And Switzerland had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did they produce? The cuckoo clock. --Graham Greene (19041991) English novelist. "The Third Man" [1949] I walked across Switzerland and am cured of that little country for ever. The only excitement in it is that you can throw a stone a frightfully long way down--that is forbidden by law. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. [1913 letter] The Swiss are inspired hotel-keepers. Some centuries since, when a stranger strayed into one of their valleys, their simple forefathers would kill him and share out the little money he might have about him. Now they know better. They keep him alive and writing cheques. --C.E. Montague (18671928) British writer. _The Right Place_ [1924] The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.' --Jerry Seinfeld (1954 ) American actor, writer, and comedian. Switzerland is simply a large, humpy, solid rock, with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _A Tramp Abroad_ [1879] . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize you antipathies. --William Ralph Inge (18601954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [19111934]. _More Lay Thoughts of a Dean_ [1931] There is much noise made about [sympathy for the distress of others], but it is greatly exaggerated. No, Sir, we have a certain degree of feeling to prompt us to do good. More than that, Providence does not intend. It would be misery to no purpose. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [19 October 1791]. The more you are drawn to put yourself in the place of the other person, the more you feel the pain inflicted upon him, the insult offered him, the injustice of which he is a victim, the more will you be urged to act so that you may prevent the pain, insult, or injustice. --Peter Kropotkin (18421921) Russian anarchist. "Anarchist Morality" (pamphlet 5) [1909] in _Kroporkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets_ ed. Roger N. Baldwin [1927]. Anyone can sympathize with another's sorrow, but to sympathize with another's joy is the attribute of an angel. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. In William James, letter to Mrs Francis J. Child [27 March 1885]. . . see "PLACES" for related links What was...curious was the atmosphere of the rascally Syrian town, made of Moslem scoundrels, Christian thieves, and Jew moneylenders, all of types that blanch Chicago white. Yet what bores one in Chicago, intensely amused me in Damascus. They cheated me out of my eye- lids, stole my letters, lied ten times to the word, and made me live like a swine, and I only laughed. --Henry Brooks Adams (18381918) American historian & man of letters. Letter to Elizabeth Cameron [24 March 1898]. . . What is wrong then? The system. But when you've said that you've said nothing. The system, after all, is only the outcome of the human psyche, the human desires. We shout and blame the machine. But who on earth makes the machine, if we don't? And any alterations in the system are only modifications in the machine. The system is in us, it is not something external to us. The machine is in us, or it would never come out of us. Well then, there's nothing to blame but ourselves, and there's nothing to change except inside ourselves. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. _Education of the People_ [One of four essays written c. 1918] end page | SACRED - SANTA CLAUS | SARCASM - SCHOOL | SCIENCE - SCULPTURE | SEA (THE) - SEEING | SELF - SELF-ESTEEM | SELF-EXAMINATION - SEMANTICS | SENATE (THE U.S.) - SERIOUSNESS | SEX | SEX SYMBOLS - SHEEP | SHIPS - SILENCE | SILLINESS - SINGING | SINGLE-MINDEDNESS - SKY | SLANDER - SMILES | SMOKING - SOCIETY | SOLDIERS - SOPHISTICATION | SORROW - SOUTH SEA | SPACE - SPEAKING | SPEECH - SPENDTHRIFTS | SPIDERS - SPY | SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP | STAGE (THE) - STERILIZATION | STOCK MARKET - STRANGERS | STRENGTH - SUBURBS | SUCCESS | SUFFERING - SUPREME COURT | SURPRISE - SYSTEM (THE) | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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