Best Ingratitude Sayings
95 Ingratitude quotes by 77 unique authors
-
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with…
— George Orwell
-
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
-
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
— Euripides
-
We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.
— Charles Spurgeon
-
Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
— Machado de Assis
-
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
— Charles Caleb Colton
-
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…
— Seneca the Younger
-
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
— Plautus
-
The wicked are always ungrateful.
— Miguel de Cervantes
-
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
-
Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
-
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring…
— William Shakespeare
-
Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.
— John Milton
-
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
— Decimius Magnus Ausonius
-
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
— Samuel Garth
-
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
-
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
— Jean de la Bruyere
-
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
— Benjamin Franklin
-
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
— Immanuel Kant
-
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude…
— Alphonsus Liguori
-
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
-
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I…
— Charles Dickens
-
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content…
— Lin Yutang
-
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but…
— Margaret Atwood
More Ways to Read Ingratitude Quotes
Who Wrote These Ingratitude Quotes
77 authors contributed a total of 95 Ingratitude Quotes, led by these top contributors: