Quotes About Expectations

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

Women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with.  Girls don't think it right.

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.

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being.

Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. They apparently are getting remarkably rare.

Un homme peut être heureux avec n'importe quelle femme, à condition de ne pas l'aimer.

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past, he answered.

We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Ten en cuenta que si regalas algo a tu amante antes de haberla poseído, es muy fácil que te quedes sin regalo y sin amante.

Well, anyway, we walked around for a while, looking at the animals, and suddenly he asked me to marry him outside the cage of the Siberian yak. No sir, exclaimed Sigsbee H with a sudden strange firmness, the indulgent father who for once in his life asserts himself. When you get married, you'll get married in St Thomas's like any other nice girl.

The most effective and efficient means of maintaining high standards of performance on a team is peer pressure. More than any policy or system, there is nothing like the fear of letting down respected teammates to motivate people to improve their performance.

You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.

Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons. And Freddie Threepwood was one of those younger sons who rather invite the jaundiced eye.

Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.

Few things are more difficult in this world for a young man than the securing of an introduction to the right girl under just the right conditions. When he is looking his best he is presented to her in the midst of a crowd, and is swept away after a rapid hand-shake. When there is no crowd he has toothache, or the sun has just begun to make his nose peel. Thousands of young lives have been saddened in this manner.

I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey.

She was a kind-hearted girl, and it irked her to have to be continually acting as a black frost in Freddie's garden of dreams.