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Quotes About Disappointment

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
~ Oscar Wilde
Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.
~ Oscar Wilde
En este mundo sólo hay dos tragedias: una es no conseguir lo que deseas y la otra conseguirlo.
~ Oscar Wilde
I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nos prometieron que los sueños podrían volverse realidad. Pero se les olvido mencionar que las pesadillas también son sueños.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
~ Oscar Wilde
One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.
~ Oscar Wilde
She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life is a great disappointment.
~ Oscar Wilde
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst—the last is a real tragedy.
~ Oscar Wilde
She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed." "I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. That is one of your aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, as I do everything that you say.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them specially. Lane. [Gravely.] There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir. I went down twice. Algernon. No cucumbers! Lane. No, sir. Not even for ready money.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. İkisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.
~ Oscar Wilde
It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.
~ Owen Wister
I've always treated the man with unremitting kindness, and if he wont do a little thing like this for me, I'll kick his spine through his hat.
~ p g wodehouse
A man who can set out in a cab for a fancy-dress ball and not get there is manifestly a poop of no common order.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.
~ P.C. Cast
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore. It's hard, but it's true.
~ P.C. Cast
I closed my eyes, bowed my head and thought, AH, HELL . . .
~ P.C. Cast
I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.
~ P.C. Cast
People suck. They do stupid things and they're not nice. The end.
~ P.C. Cast
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
~ P.G. Wodehouse