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Quotes about Displeasure

It does not matter as much what bad is in us as what is good; not what corruptions remain but how we regard them; not what our particular failings are so much as what the thread and tenor of our lives are, for Christ's displeasure of that which is wrong in us does not turn to his hatred of us but to his victory over all of our weaknesses.
- Richard Sibbes
What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness.
- Joseph Heller
Then making the noise usually written "Tut-tut," he
- Dorothy Sayers
The basket was opened, and a ginger head emerged resentfully.
- Dorothy Sayers
Familiarity breed contempt.
- Aesop
They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
- John Calvin