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Expectation: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits, Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.— A. W. ii. 1.

For now sits Expectation in the air.— H. V. ii. chorus

So tedious is this day, As is the night before some festival To an impatient child, that hath new robes,— R. J. iii. 2.

And may not wear them. Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits, On one and other side, Trojan and Greek Sets all on hazard. T.C. Prologue. The town is empty; on the brow o' the sea— O. ii. 1.

Stand ranks of people, and they cry, -a sail. For every minute is expectancy Of more arrivance.— 0. ii. 1.

It is a high-wrought flood; I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main, Descry a sail.— 0. ii. 1

Even till we make the main, and the aërial blue An indistinct regard.— 0. ii. L.