Displease Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
— Francis Bacon
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating…
— Wayne Dyer
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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
— Saint Augustine
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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which…
— Samuel Gompers
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I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
— Nick Offerman
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If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee,…
— Saint Augustine
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It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not…
— A B Simpson
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.
— Adrian Rogers
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If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?
— Leonard Ravenhill
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If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.
— Steve Lawson
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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing…
— Jonathan Swift
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better…
— William Hazlitt
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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
— Brigham Young
Who Wrote These Displease Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Displease Quotes as follows: