Displeasure Quotes

• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Safe Haven, Reality, Risk

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Grieving, Past, Punishment

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.1, TAN Books

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• Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

  Fanny Burney

  Moving, Kind, All Occasions

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3751, Delphi Classics

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• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Causes, Broke

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• Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

  Karl Abraham

  Dream, Gains, Pleasure

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Duty, Dearest Friend, Fronts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, World, Dissatisfaction

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• When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Way, Causes, Sincerity

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• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Foolish Man, Opinion

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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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 that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Believe, Media

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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 of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

  Maya Angelou

  Cancer, Writing, Talking

  "Women Are Angrier Than Ever Before - And They're Doing Something About It" by Melissa Harris-Perry, www.elle.com. March 9, 2018.

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• Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Oneself, Unkindness

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.174, U of Nebraska Press

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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 sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Taken, Acceptance, Giving

  "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson".

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• ...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Expression, People, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Disrespect earns the displeasure of the creator and the creation.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Islamic, Disrespect, Creation

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• Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Envy, Hatred, Needs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  Doris Day

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

  Xunzi

  Confused, Equality, Differences

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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 for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Risk, Favors

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

  J. C. Ryle

  Favors, Poverty, Wealth

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.317, Editora Dracaena

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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 sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.113

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• He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

  Francis Atterbury

  Office, Needs, Enmity

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• There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Knowledge, Mean, Sea

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