Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility [of Mrs. John Dashwood’s feelings on being obliged to show a slight courtesy to her sisters-in-law and the fears this evoked of them coming to expect such civility from her]
…when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of anything better from them.
One reply on “Chafing Expectations”
This must be my problem.