Quotes About Expectations

All romances end at marriage.

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides. But the understood incentive on the woman's part was wanting here. Besides, Bathsheba's position as absolute mistress of a farm and house was a novel one, and the novelty had not yet begun to wear off.

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

No average man will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look Come on he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

we know very well women scarcely ever jilt men; 'tis men who jilt us.

Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me! Ay, mistress—so I did. But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!

What I meant to tell you was only this', she said eagerly, and yet half-conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself: 'that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way_ though possibly I shall be to be had some day Bathsheba Everdene

The secret of happiness lay in limiting the aspirations . . .

tis a talent of the female race that low numbers should stand for high, more especially in matters of waiting, matters of age, and matters of money.

La ofendía y le dolía que el amor incondicional de Gabriel, que había llegado a considerar como un derecho inalienable, se le retirase de pronto de ese modo.

Kad se dobro zamišljeni plan nesretno ostvari, onaj koga zoveš malokad dolazi, i ?ovjek koji bi se mogao voljeti rijetko nai?e u vrijeme kad se ljubav traži.

the absence of any expression or trait denoting that they wished to get on in the world, enlarge their minds, or do any eclipsing thing whatever — which nowadays so generally nips the bloom and bonhomie of all except the two extremes of the social scale.

He [Mr. Melbury] knew that a woman once given to a man for life took, as a rule, her lot as it came and made the best of it, without external interference; but for the first time he asked himself why this so generally should be done.

There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behaviour. When they want to be praised, which is often, when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom. Just now the first feeling was in the ascendant with Bathsheba, with a dash of the second. Moreover

Victor's well-educated adult children have learned that a high level of consumption is expected of people who spend many years in college and professional schools. Today his children are under accumulators of wealth. They are the opposite of their father, the blue-collar, successful business owner. His children have become Americanized. They are part of the high-consuming, employment-postponing generation. How

Nevertheless, we wanted to make Mr. Bud feel that we fully understood the food and drink expectations of America's decamillionaires. So after we introduced ourselves, one of us asked, "Mr. Bud, may I pour you a glass of 1970 Bordeaux?" Mr. Bud looked at us with a puzzled expression on his face and then said:    I drink scotch and

Nevertheless, we wanted to make Mr. Bud feel that we fully understood the food and drink expectations of America's decamillionaires. So after we introduced ourselves, one of us asked, "Mr. Bud, may I pour you a glass of 1970 Bordeaux?" Mr. Bud looked at us with a puzzled expression on his face and then said:    I drink scotch and two kinds of beer—free and BUD WEISER! We

Nevertheless, we wanted to make Mr. Bud feel that we fully understood the food and drink expectations of America's decamillionaires. So after we introduced ourselves, one of us asked, "Mr. Bud, may I pour you a glass of 1970 Bordeaux?" Mr. Bud looked at us with a puzzled expression on his face and then said: I drink scotch and two kinds of beer—free and BUDWEISER!

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

you were making them promises about a future. And would not such promises constitute, in anyone's code, a true cruelty?

The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.