Jane Austen Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Expectations, Liberty

• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Attitude, Expectations

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• ..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

  Jane Austen

  Expectations, Sanguine

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

• Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Cousin, Mrs Bennet, Expectations

  Huw Thomas, Jane Austen (2014). “Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle”, p.54, BookBaby

• I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

  Jane Austen

  Accomplishment, Expectations, Quality

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.591, Ageless Reads

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