Displeasure Quotes

49 quotes by 45 authors

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues… — Tony Campolo
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without… — Martin Luther
Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure. — Victor LaValle
By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the… — Pascal Bruckner
O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. — Adrienne Monnier
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Fanny Burney
In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee… — Ludwig van Beethoven
If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me. — Anne Boleyn
Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed. — Fanny Burney
It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of… — Abraham Lincoln
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object… — Maya Angelou
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor… — Isocrates
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a… — Edna Ferber
Wealth is no mark of Godâ€™s favor. Poverty is no mark of Godâ€™s displeasure. — J C Ryle
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden… — John Flavel
Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness,… — Paul Pearsall
The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the… — Robin G. Collingwood
They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure. — Florenz Ziegfeld

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