“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
Source: The Wanting Seed
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English writer 1917–1993Related quotes
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5
On whether she considers herself hopeful in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/11896/jia-tolentino-trick-mirror-book-interview-new-yorker-staff-writer-2019 in AnOther (2019 Sep 15)
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 2
“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”
Variant: Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.
Source: The Wizard Heir
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”
Letter, written in collaboration with John Gay, to William Fortescue (23 September 1725).
A similar remark was made in a letter to John Gay (16 October 1727): "I have many years magnify'd in my own mind, and repeated to you a ninth Beatitude, added to the eight in the Scripture: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Variant: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Context: "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.