Abiding Quote by Anthony Burgess

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…

— Anthony Burgess

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

— Anthony Burgess

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

— Sarah Dessen

A pessimist is never disappointed.

— Jack Cleary

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We…

— Tamar Myers

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

— Jessica Simpson

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

— Robin Sharma

The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good happens, it's…

— John Rzeznik

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do,…

— Martin Seligman

Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.

— Noelle Scaggs

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass,…

— Semir Zeki