Unlooked Quotes
12 quotes by 10 authors
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
— Alexander Pope
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Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without…
— Simon Barnes
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Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for…
— Margaret Fuller
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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,…
— Elizabeth Drew
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The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we…
— Thomas Malthus
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What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for…
— Christopher Paolini
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Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for…
— Salman Rushdie
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A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlooked-for from Your Highness' mouth. A dearer merit, not so deep a maim As to be…
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Unlooked Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 12 Unlooked Quotes as follows: