Quotes About Expectation

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself.

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. Lane.  It never is, sir. Algernon.  Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. Lane.  I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Life is a great disappointment.

JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me! GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst—the last is a real tragedy.

I rely on you to misrepresent me.

Si no tarda usted mucho, le esperaré aquí toda la vida.

A new life! That was what he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he

If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.

Umie? si? cieszy?. Ze wszystkiego. Nie oczekiwa?, ?e w przysz?o?ci zdarzy si? co?, co b?dzie prawdziwe. Mo?liwe bowiem, ?e prawdziwe przychodzi w?a?nie teraz, a w przysz?o?ci nic pi?kniejszego ju? nie nadejdzie

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books.

A man who can set out in a cab for a fancy-dress ball and not get there is manifestly a poop of no common order.

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare - or if not, it's some equally brainy bird - who says that it's always when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.