You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

— Ambrose Bierce

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should…

— William Shakespeare

Satanism represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

— Anton Szandor LaVey

I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

— Louis XIV

We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be…

— Rich Lowry

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

— Nuruddin Farah

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to…

— Ann Voskamp

Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Esteem never makes ingrates.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a…

— William S. Burroughs

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone.…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

— Ronald Blythe