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Everybody takes pleasure in returning small obligations; many go so far as to knowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly any one who does not repay great obligations with ingratitude. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man. - Sir Roger L'Estrange We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century. - Thomas Babington Macaulay If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. - George MacDonald No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, And all life not be purer and stronger thereby. - Owen Meredith (pseudonym of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton) Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion. - Lady Sydney Morgan The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving. - Lady Sydney Morgan Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. - Old Italian Saying One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator is the very extensiveness of His bounty. - William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Persa (II, 2, 46) Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. - Armand Jean du Plessis Duc de Richelieu To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. - Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi) 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 ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Beneficiis (III, 1) Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Amiens at II, vii) 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 ourselves to be monstrous members. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, ii) This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii) Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at I, iv) All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at IV, i) I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at III, iv) The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive, and leave an indelible stamp upon his race. - Samuel Smiles Flints may be melted--we see it daily--but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. - Bishop Robert South You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a kindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody; they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all the world. - Bishop Robert South Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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