Thankless Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
— Nick Cave
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
— August Strindberg
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It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks
— Colin Baker
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Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose…
— Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
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I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the…
— Al Capone
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Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.
— Jim Gaffigan
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Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
— Norma Shearer
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Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.
— David Hemmings
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In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
— Katie Roiphe
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Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.
— Shel Silverstein
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Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as…
— John Naughton
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When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really…
— Dakota Johnson
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Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
— Jessica Valenti
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought…
— William Hazlitt
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I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the…
— John Buchan
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I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks,…
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the…
— Julius Erving
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
— Thomas Jefferson
Who Wrote These Thankless Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 37 Thankless Quotes, led by these top contributors: