“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
Anthony Burgess book The Wanting Seed
Source: The Wanting Seed
“If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.”
Source: Lock and Key
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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
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.
“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Variant: Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.
Source: The Wizard Heir
“no expectations, no disappointments!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Sleeping with Strangers
Jia Tolentino (1988) American writer and editor
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)
“Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Variant: Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage