Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^1 Great Expectations, ch.19.

Beneath the strain of expectation even the little iced sugar cakes upon the tea-table looked green with worry.

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  The Flower Beneath the Foot, ch.3.

Un grand obstacle au bonheur, c'est de s'attendre a'   un trop grand bonheur. The greatest obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

-Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de
  Du bonheur.

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

-Illich, Ivan
  Celebration of  Awareness, ch.12.

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in times of stress 'educated'people tend to come to the front.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.3.

Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances read, or sights once seen: Fruition's dull, and spoils the play much more Than if one read or knew the plot before; 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; It were not heaven, if we knew what it were.

-Suckling, SirJohn
  'Against Fruition'.