Charles Dickens Quotes

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.

Well, the clothes are really cool that we wear. The sets are so funny, because it's like everything is so real.

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" croaked Artemis. "And a T-shirt.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.