Quotes About Ingratitude

Hindi commercial cinema has denigrated women. We owe a debt of ingratitude to Bollywood for having insidiously polluted our culture covertly.

On the other hand, no man is saved mechanically or by force, but through faith, freely, by accepting the gift of God. This implies the contrary power of rejecting the gift. To accept is no merit, to reject is ingratitude and guilt. All Calvinistic preachers appeal to man's responsibility. They pray as if everything depended on God; and yet they preach and work as if everything depended on man.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.

The qualities that make the soul cling to rebirth or to illusion are vividly encompassed by a Korean word, won, which has a cluster of meanings, including resentment, ingratitude, regret for lost opportunities, and a knot in the stomach; this state of the soul results from being poorly treated or unappreciated while living or from any of the many situations covered by the rubric "to die screaming.

But can one obtain a divorce here?" "Oh, no," said they. "We trafficked in them for a while, but we found that all persons who obtained divorces through our industry promptly thanked Heaven they were free at last. In the face of such ingratitude we gave over that profitless trade

For Ignatius, ingratitude was the "most abominable of sins," indeed "the cause, the beginning and origin of all sins and misfortunes.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" (Lear, 4.279–80).

The greatest benefits will not bind the ungrateful.

GRATITUDE is intellectually compelling and it is a very good trait—so why are we so often ungrateful? There are two reasons for this. The first is that a person's first impression is that everything comes by itself, and that it is all coming to him. The other reason is: when I receive good from someone and I recognize that good, I became indebted to him. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

Ingrta sunt beneficia quibus comes est metus. (Publilius Sent.: ingrtus, -a, -um, ungrateful, thankless; unwelcome, displeasing; "ingrate," "ingratitude."—comes, comitis, m./ f., companion; "concomitant," "count," i.e., a nobleman's title.)

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday's mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow's problems, and ingratitude for today's blessings.