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Quotes About Ingratitude

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
~ Eric Hoffer
Mesmo esta vida artística, que sabemos não ser a verdadeira, parece-me tão vívida e seria uma ingratidão não contentar-se com ela.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
One of humanity's most common character traits is ingratitude.
~ Dennis Prager
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Having to do everything and nobody does nothing is irritating. Being unappreciated is irritating. Ungrateful people are irritating.
~ Unknown
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
~ Joseph Stalin
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
~ Dorothy Parker
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
~ Immanuel Kant
Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Moments came back to him when he had behaved less honorably than he wished. He remembered instances of neglect and ingratitude. He felt the pang of remorse and resolved not to do the same again.
~ Diane Setterfield
This year is the year of man's ingratitude: the next will be the year of God's chastisement; for God must needs chastise, though 'tis against his nature: we will have it so.
~ Unknown
My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude
~ Unknown
The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
~ R. A. Torrey
He did not thank Medea for her aid; he scarcely looked at her. As if a demigoddess saving him at every turn was only his due.
~ Madeline Miller
En muhtaç durumdakilerin en nefret etti?i ?ey minnettarl?kt?r, s?rf kendilerini yeniden iyi hissetmek için ilk f?rsatta sald?r?rlar.
~ Madeline Miller
I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any act of servility if the need arose, and was incapable of gratitude. In which he resembled the majority of mankind.
~ Marcel Proust
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
~ Cardinal Richelieu
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.
~ E. B. White
It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.
~ Martin Luther
The cause of this is not the rage and wickedness of the devil, nor that of the hordes of his Mohammed, but the damnable ingratitude and contempt for the Gospel on the part of those who have it but do not seriously care about it and see to it that they retain it.
~ Martin Luther
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...
~ Douglas Wilson
Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan