Ingratitude Quotes

“Spoilt people live rotten lives.”

— Habeeb Akande

Ingratitude is the child of pride

— Russyb

Ingratitude is monstrous.

— William Shakespeare

Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend ...

— William Shakespeare

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

— James Thomson

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

— Samuel ibn Naghrillah

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

— Immanuel Kant

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

— Benjamin Franklin

Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

— Karl Barth

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

— Elizabeth I

“Ingratitude is poison to the soul remorse is part of the diagnosis.”

— Vasilios Karpos

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

— Brigham Young

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

— Mokichi Okada

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of…

— Henry Fielding

“Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Anouar Majid

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's…

— Thomas Gibbons

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

— William Shakespeare

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they…

— Max Lucado

All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my…

— George Orwell

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Elbridge Gerry

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.'…

— Charlie Pierce

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

— Charles Dickens

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps…

— William Shakespeare

The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so…

— Joseph Hertz

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them…

— James Monroe

“I have seen émigrés with the humility typical of concentration camp survivors come to this country and happily accept anything that afforded…

— Ernesto Sabato

The Armenians will willingly harbor revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about…

— Mark Sykes

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring…

— Henry Fielding

Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment,…

— Noel 'Razor' Smith

There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all…

— James Madison

“[Y]ou accuse these people of ingratitude; let me, one of the people who suffer, defend them. Favors rendered, in order to have…

— José Rizal

“the thing i found offensive, the thing i hated about mohican-mountain-makers, gill-netters, poachers, whalehunters, strip-miners, herbicide-spewers, dam-erectors, nuclear-reactor-builders or anyone who lusted…

— David James Duncan

“Now,' cried the fiend, 'follow me! You must understand that I cannot get out by the great gate - the porter will…

— Hain Friswell