Ingratitude Quotes · Page 2

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

— Henry Ward Beecher

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

— Euripides

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

— Pierre Corneille

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

— Mokichi Okada

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

— Jean Lorrain

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

— Antoine Rivarol

It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil…

— W. Eugene Hansen

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

— John Bunyan

“[...] It is not humanity that will tear the land asunder, but a certain inhumanity born from ingratitude and the explosion of…

— Anouar Majid

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from…

— Machado de Assis

Hindi commercial cinema has denigrated women. We owe a debt of ingratitude to Bollywood for having insidiously polluted our culture covertly.

— Victor Banerjee

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love…

— Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

— Jonah Goldberg

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

— George Washington

Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful,…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“I daily discover so much baseness and ingratitude among mankind that I almost blush at being of the same species, and could…

— Willard Sterne Randall

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

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

“Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our…

— Charles Dickens

And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of…

— Elbridge Gerry

Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

— Karl Barth

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

— William Shakespeare

“This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that’s what it is. Blind”

— Robert M. Pirsig

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

— Edward Young

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Samuel Garth

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

— Samuel Johnson

I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.

— Katrina Kaif

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember…

— Alphonsus Liguori

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when…

— Timothy Noah

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

— Robert Breault