quotations about ingratitude
Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.
BILLY GRAHAM
Wisdom for Each Day
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
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
I hate ingratitude more in a man,
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Twelfth Night
Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
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
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
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ungrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Coriolanus
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
"Ingratitude" is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.
JEAN LORRAIN
Monsieur De Phocas
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
ERIC HOFFER
New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.
ANKALA V SUBBARAO
attributed, Compassionate Quotes
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
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