Displeasure Quotes
49 quotes by 45 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
— Victor LaValle
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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
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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
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Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
— Adrienne Monnier
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
— Fanny Burney
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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
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If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.
— Anne Boleyn
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
— Fanny Burney
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
— J C Ryle
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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
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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
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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
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
— Florenz Ziegfeld
Who Wrote These Displeasure Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 49 Displeasure Quotes, led by these top contributors: