"However, it is always nice to be..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
More by Oscar Wilde
“The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.”
“Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.”
“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”
More on Expectation
“I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.”
“Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.”
“The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.”
More on Social Interaction
“If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”