Expectation Quotes

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.

I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

How could you expect to stay happy after hurting an innocent soul.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.