Famous quotes containing the words expected to and/or expected:
“Twenty can’t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty’s eternal love affairs.”
—Emily Carr (1871–1945)
“I don’t think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“[My father] was a lazy man. It was the days of independent incomes, and if you had an independent income you didn’t work. You weren’t expected to. I strongly suspect that my father would not have been particularly good at working anyway. He left our house in Torquay every morning and went to his club. He returned, in a cab, for lunch, and in the afternoon went back to the club, played whist all afternoon, and returned to the house in time to dress for dinner.”
—Agatha Christie (1891–1976)
“If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)