Displeased

Famous quotes containing the word displeased:

    His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, -Why have you done thus and so?
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 1:6.

    Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, -They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom? So Saul eyed David from that day on.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 18:8-9.

    They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)