Quotes About Expectations

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

To be in Society is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.

JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Nos prometieron que los sueños podrían volverse realidad. Pero se les olvido mencionar que las pesadillas también son sueños.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.

That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

You must admit, Harry, that women give to men the very gold of their lives.' 'Possibly,' he sighed, 'but they invariably want it back in such very small change.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.

Cuando una mujer vuelve a casarse es porque detestaba a su primer marido. Cuando un hombre vuelve a casarse es porque adoraba a su primera mujer. Las mujeres prueban suerte. Los hombres arriesgan la suya. -Narborough

Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Do you smoke? Jack.  Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell.  I am glad to hear it.  A man should always have an occupation of some kind. 

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. 

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays.