Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Expectation Quotes

I must be cruel only to be kind

I must be cruel only to be kind

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

He that dies pays all debts

He that dies pays all debts

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

There's no trust, no faith, no honesty, in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all nought,...

There's no trust, no faith, no honesty, in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all nought,...

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to...

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to...

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are...

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are...

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor,...

Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor,...

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the...

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the...

All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when...

All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when...

I dote on his very absence.

I dote on his very absence.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured...

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured...

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,...

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a...

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a...

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons,...

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons,...