Quotes About Expectations

I feel like he's a guest at the hotel I'm running. I'm constantly taking a silent feminist stand to see if he'll step up and lend a hand. The scorekeeping never ends.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Tienes una triste alternativa ante ti, Elizabeth: debes renunciar a uno de tus padres. Tu madre no quiere volver a verte si no te casas con Collins, y yo no quiero volver a verte si te casas con él.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.