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Ingratitude: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace.— WORDSWORTH — Character of the Happy
Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.— DRYDEN — Alexander's Feast. St. 4.
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.— SIR SAM'L GARTH — Epistle to the Earl of Godolphin. L. 27.
That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank. N.— THOMAS GIBBONS — When Jesus Dwelt.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. 1776. All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall On her ungrateful top.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 164.
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.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 174.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 79.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.— Shakespeare — S. King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 310.
I hate ingratitude more in a man, Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 388.
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude. и.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 8.
Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster!— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 28.
This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Cæsar saw him stab Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms, Quite vanquish'd 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 Cæsar fell. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 187. What, would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 69.
He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.— YOUNG — Busiris.
Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat. Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.— AUSONIUS — Epigrammata. CXL. 1.
Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas. You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.— PLAUTUS — Persa. II. 2. 46.
Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis cum mali messem metas. How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done.— PLAUTUS — Epidicus. V. 2. 53.
Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat: ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est. 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.— SENECA — De Beneficiis. III. 1.
Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet. One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Beneficia usque eo læta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratiâ odium redditur. Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.— TACITUS — Annales. IV. 18.