Quotes About Expectation

Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.

But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.

Marriage will cure me, I expect. It always seems to have a very sobering effect on people.

Expect me when you see me.

it is the future that causes one inquietude.

It is love that has come — not as you imagined it, all cock-a-hoop with fine feathers, but sadly, with bleeding feet.

I don't know what the usual reactions are of a man who goes to propose marriage. In fiction his throat is dry and his collar feels too tight and he is in a pitiable state of nervousness.

Quando si vive nello stesso paese, uno non sente il bisogno di programmare incontri con i vecchi amici: prima o poi è convinto che li incontrerà. Questo però, se ci si muove in sfere diverse, non accade mai.

So long as you didn't expect her to talk. He thanked his stars he wasn't married to her. Once you got used to all that perfection of face and form where would you be? She couldn't even listen intelligently. The sort of girl who would expect you to tell her every morning at the breakfast table that you loved her passionately!

What do you expect Cust to tell you?" Hercule Poirot smiled. "A lie," he said. "And by it, I shall know the truth!

esperaba... esperaba a lo largo de las horas el éxito o el fracaso de un esfuerzo.

Some people are wise - they never expect to be happy. I did.

the world is full of the young – or even the middle-aged – who wait, patiently or impatiently, for the death of someone whose decease will give them if not affluence – then opportunity

Calgary sighed. Things were never, he thought, the way you imagined them to be. Every day he found himself less attracted to the man whose name he had taken such trouble to vindicate. He was almost coming to understand and share the point of view which had so astounded him at Sunny Point.

But I thought I might have to go to church on Sunday, and although the Archbishop has said one needn't, I still think that the more old-fashioned clergy expect one to wear a hat. But

Like all men, he was a spoilt child; he expected everybody to make a fuss of him.

He thought to himself: "He'll ask me now if I was old enough to be in the War. These old boys always do." But General Macarthur did not mention the War.

I know, my dear, that isn't what you expected when I began this story. It wasn't what I expected either. But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again

It´s true, isn´t it? We´re all waiting for the end.

It's—it's so lovely to think of things—and then for them really to happen!" cried Tuppence enthusiastically.

Laycock then displayed his particular genius which was that of enthusiastic agreement and subsequent lack of performance.

If you come to a Vicarage, you ought to be prepared to find a Vicar.

I think the truth is…you fell for a face and a body and then put the person inside you wanted to find there.