Charity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if…

— Alexander Pope

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

— Ben Jonson

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

— E. W. Howe

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom…

— William Hazlitt

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

— William Wordsworth

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what…

— David Hume

“But, as Otare Mannoni has pointed out, gratitude is a strange emotion in that it is made up of two seemingly contradictory expressions: first,…

— Frances FitzGerald

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

— Seneca the Younger