Top 20 Dismay Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Dismay Quotes from famous people such as Nick Hanauer, Rick Bass, Russell Baker, Dee Dee Ramone, Richard C. Armitage, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.
Nick Hanauer
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
Rick Bass
Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
When I got into rap I didn’t exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
Dee Dee Ramone
It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.
Richard C. Armitage
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore de Balzac
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
L. Sprague de Camp
‘Ain’t It Fun,’ which is about entering the real world, is bouncy and shows off Paramore’s lighter side, to the dismay of some of the band’s fans, who are used to the punk-rock sound.
Phoebe Robinson
I don’t have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents’ dismay.
Jenna Bush
So I think that having Donald Trump as president of our country, and also his impact around the world, would have left my father in dismay.
Kerry Kennedy
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
Jared Leto
My slice of the millennial generation, as we grew up, became – to the dismay of the GOP – a bloc of fairly consistently Democratic voters.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and then, much to their dismay, I became a stand-up comedian.
Jimmy O. Yang
I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
Vikram Patel
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.
Ivanka Trump
I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when – for the first time in the history of planet Earth – America’s share of auto production dropped below 50 percent.
Seth Shostak
I, like most guys, sit around on Sundays, turn on ‘NFL Sunday Ticket,’ and watch a dozen-plus games every weekend, much to the dismay of my family.
Casey Wasserman
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.
Andrew O’Hagan
No one ever tells you what the grieving process is going to be like. The process of losing a parent or ending a show or vocal injuries – they all bring on their own special breed of dismay… You just have to ride the wave. You don’t have any other choice.
Steve Kazee
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I’d take them back to the track and give ’em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents’ dismay, I majored in photography in college.
John Sexton