Contempt Quote by Edward Young

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

— Sophocles

“A gift that has the power to change us awakens a part of the soul. But we cannot receive the gift until we can…

— Dan B. Allender

Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or…

— Rhonda Byrne

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even…

— Otto von Bismarck

“True gratitude, not mere verbal platitudes of thanks, is also a power in and of itself, which bursts forth from our inner being to…

— Stephen Richards

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

— Sakya Pandita