Quotes About Displeased

To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...

If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more interested in pleasing Him than pleasing ego or vanity.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

The world today doesn't please me.

and after a pause—Mellersh was much too prudent to speak except after a pause, during which presumably he was taking a careful mental copy of his coming observation—he said, much displeased...

When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

her tone more disapproving than dismayed.

People that complain often are usually trying to get attention. The stems from the fact they're displeased with their accomplishments and think the lack of same is the fault of others.

My face went through several contortions before finally settling on unhappiness. I didn't like my hand exploding. "What? Why?

I knew God was displeased by my lack of forgiveness, but it was impossible to forget the words that were cemented in my heart. Betrayal hurts.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

I should be much displeased at this, not because of any loss that it might occasion, but because I should no longer have the assurance that, whenever I wish, I can separate myself from the rest of the world.

Después le tendí el libro a Lila, le dije: ¿Quieres verlo? Ella respondió que no con la cabeza y una mueca displicente.

what a terrible thing a dissatisfied mind is.

He is an abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature through being displeased with the things that happen; for the same nature that produces these things has produced you, too:

did not fulfil the whole of the promised payment to Sir Thomas for the French lords, cousin.' I smiled at Edward. 'Many would think you parsimonious but we know that you were merely stretched with other expenditure. And of course you were displeased, as would any proud man be

Is it right for God to be pleased when others hold him in contempt? Is it fitting that he be joyful when his created beings despise him? Of course not! To the contrary, it's fitting and proper for God to be displeased when his created beings hold him in contempt. But this means that it's also fitting and proper for him to be pleased when appropriate love, esteem, and honor are given to him.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

I'm not hurt. I'm appalled.

The man's face displeased her. It looked ironic to her, and she detested irony. She always thought that irony (all forms of irony) was like an armed guard posted at the entrance to her future, scrutinizing her with an inquisitive eye and rejecting her with a shake of the head.

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.

you were the only one who understood the futility of the arrangement of life; all the others were only displeased with trivial segments, carped nonsensically about nonsense; Jane, you were killed by knowing too much.

Phryne was feeling most displeased with a species to which, she reminded herself, she belonged.

Knott-Sloman was looking displeased. He had not liked Starling's breaking into his anecdote, nor the perfunctory nod with which the little don acknowledged their introduction. Nigel was conscious of an immediate antipathy between the two— the antipathy, perhaps, between the conversationalist, who lives by give-and-take, and the man who must have monologue or nothing.