Displease Quotes

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Your notions of friendship are new to me;

I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense;

that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.