Displease Quotes

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 firends. 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.

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

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

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.