Ungenerous Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are… — Joseph Addison
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. — Samuel Richardson
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. — Thomas Nagel
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt… — Charles Alexander Eastman
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route. — Saul Bellow
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness. — Samuel Richardson
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a… — Nelson A. Miles
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of… — Demosthenes
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers. — Joseph Addison
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether… — Diana Trilling
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one. — Jean Rhys
Th-there," she sobbed. "it dragged him to the Italian gardens. He managed to elude its maw at first, but it harried him through the paths.… — Cassandra Clare

Who Wrote These Ungenerous Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 14 Ungenerous Quotes as follows: