Displeases Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
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He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep…
— Mark Twain
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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
— Mark Twain
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Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on…
— David Hume
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In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
— Brigitte Bardot
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We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think…
— Joko Beck
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We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected…
— Thomas a Kempis
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
— Saint Bernard
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Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans…
— Michael Specter
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Who Wrote These Displeases Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Displeases Quotes as follows: