Quotes on Ingratitude

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.