A Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Come Like Misfortunes Rarely Single Surprises

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English - Novelist
August 14, 1802 - October 15, 1838

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Boyle Roche

Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.

Peter Greenaway

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

Abigail Johnson

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Orson Scott Card

The moon shone like herrings in the water.

Dorothy Wordsworth

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

Gil Scott-Heron

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

William Shakespeare

The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single family, might exhibit an interesting and instructive picture of human manners; but the tedious repetition of vague and declamatory complaints would fatigue the attention of the most patient reader.

Edward Gibbon

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Orson Scott Card

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Vernon A. Walters

In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want to draw upon. Having said that, every single book so far has offered me surprises en route, and these include motifs that come forward as I am writing.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever would I finish a song musically before starting the lyrical ideas. So a lot of the time, they come in tandem, or they just come at a glance.

Hozier

Misfortunes never come singly.

Anne Frank

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

Willa Cather

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