INGRATITUDE QUOTES

quotations about ingratitude

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN

Great Truths


Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

BILLY GRAHAM

Wisdom for Each Day

Tags: Billy Graham


If you don't think this is a thankless world, try picking out a hat for your wife.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither.

BASILE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Ingratitude's a weed of every clime,
It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

SAMUEL GARTH

"Epistle to the Earl of Godolphin"


He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

SENECA THE YOUNGER

De Beneficiis

Tags: Seneca the Younger


I hate ingratitude more in a man,
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Twelfth Night

Tags: William Shakespeare


Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

Tags: William Shakespeare


Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.

PETRONIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

Tags: Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

RICHELIEU

attributed, Day's Collacon


We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: François de La Rochefoucauld


Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ungrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Coriolanus

Tags: William Shakespeare


Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Governor Dinwiddie, May 29, 1754

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"Ingratitude" is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

JEAN LORRAIN

Monsieur De Phocas


Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.

ANKALA V SUBBARAO

attributed, Compassionate Quotes


People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

ERIC HOFFER

New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971

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The worst of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles encrusts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hardens under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness, and aptitude to receive impressions.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

AUSONIUS

Epigrams


Ingratitude is of all crimes what in ourselves we account the most venial, in others the most unpardonable.

KAMES

attributed, Day's Collacon