William Shakespeare Quotes About Expectations

• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

• Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Failure, Keeping Promises

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.216

• I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
  The imaginary relish is so sweet
  That it enchants my sense.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Expectations

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [17]

• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

• Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, Expectations

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.590

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