Quotes About Ingratitude

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arm, Quite vanquish'd him; then burst his mighty heart.

Republics are ungrateful.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.

this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And

This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.

Die Menschen sind undankbar, unbeständig, heuchlerisch, furchtsam und eigennützig.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

The worst of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles encrusts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hardens under ingratitude, in proportion to its openness, and aptitude to receive impressions.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

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

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.