Quotes About Expectations

She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.

The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.

The trouble with her is that either she thinks that at last she's got to that spot or place or that moment in her life where everything's like a fairy tale come true, that nothing can go wrong, that she'll never be unhappy again; or else she's down in the dumps, a woman whose life is ruined, who's never known love and happiness and who never will again.

Ah, but people don't run true to form in love affairs.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes—they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Women are like that nowadays, never happy unless they're dancing or gambling.

It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.

people are capable of surprising one frightfully. One gets an idea of them into one's head, and sometimes it's absolutely wrong. Not always - but sometimes.

I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first.

Women were all the same. They promised to burn things and then didn't.

Toat? lumea se a?teapt? ca educa?ia s? fie un drept fundamental ?i nu pun mare pre? pe ea când o primesc!

It is really a very hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

Il guaio, con me, era che avevo voluto sempre troppe cose, e le avevo volute con avidità e senza essere disposto a rinunciare a niente.

The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.

Ma non aveva mai tenuto conto della natura umana. Aveva sempre considerato le persone come casi da trattare e problemi da risolvere. Non aveva mai capito che ciascun essere umano era diverso, aveva le proprie idiosincrasie, avrebbe reagito diversamente. Già allora l'aveva ammonita a non aspettarsi troppo. Ma lei si era sempre aspettata troppo, anche se non voleva ammetterlo, e così era sempre rimasta delusa.

Married a man who wasn't much good. I'd say she never had much judgment when it came to men. Some women haven't. They fall for anyone who tells them a hard-luck story. Always convinced that all the man needs is proper female understanding. That, once married to her, he'll pull up his socks and make a go of life! But of course that type of man never does.

It has been my experience," said Mr. Treves, "that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on -their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said dryly: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

Masa muda adalah masa yang rawan. Masa muda itu kejam, sekaligus penuh keyakinan. Penuh harapan, juga penuh persyaratan.

Wives madly devoted to unsatisfactory and often what appeared quite unprepossessing husbands, wives contemptuous of, and bored by, apparently attractive and impeccable husbands.

pero en el amor era espantosamente unilateral. Porque ella sentía una pasión profunda y avasalladora por Amyas Crale, dio por sentado que él abrigaría los mismos sentimientos hacia ella. Dio por sentado que su enamoramiento sería eterno.

I always help old ladies over crossings, and pick up parcels for old gentlemen, in case they should turn out to be eccentric millionaires. But not one of them has ever asked me my name — and quite a lot never said 'Thank you.

Comprendo que ha tenido que hacer las veces de madre de su marido, cuando su mayor deseo hubiera sido ser simplemente su esposa.

To be content with what Nature has given you, that - that is stupid!