Famous quotes containing the words expected to and/or expected:
“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)
“She has been man’s slave. He has been educated at her expense. If he bought the ice cream, she was expected to pay for all his luxuries in reduced wages. She has done the drudgery and borne the insults of those who wronged her, assuming to be her protector.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)
“What strikes me as odd now is how much my father managed to get across to me without those heart-to-hearts which I’ve read about fathers and sons having in the study or in the rowboat or in the car.... Somehow I understood completely how he expected me to behave, in small matters as well as large, even though I can’t remember being given any lectures about it beyond the occasional, undramatic “You might as well be a mensch.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“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)