Quotes About Expectations

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

else I am grown worse to please than heretofore.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

to be courted as princesses for a few weeks, in order to be treated as slaves for the rest of our lives.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

We love to carry heaven to heaven with us, and would have two summers in one year, and no less than two heavens; but this will not be for us: one, and such an one, may suffice us well enough. The Man Christ got but one only, and shall we have two?

You know what they say: It's better to have dyspareuned than never to have pareuned at all.

People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

Being the underachiever in a family of overachievers was hell.

You're searching for unicorns among mules.

Things never quite turn out the way you imagine, do they," Miss Branson said, her voice low and almost amused in tone. "You have to pay attention to the moment in your hands, before it's gone.

In the end few people are strong enough to reject what society expects of them.

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.