Anthony Burgess Quotes

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

Always think the worst. That way you will avoid too much disappointment in life.

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

I try not to get my hopes up too high with anything, because I'll never be let down that way.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.