Oscar Wilde Quotes

Destiny and history are untidy.

History is totally unpredictable.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.