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16 Quotes for 'Ingratitude' in the Database.
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Ingratitude Quotes
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Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
[Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Source: Epigrams (CXL, 1)
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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.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Alexander's Feast (st. 4)
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Ingratitude's a weed of every clime,
It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
Author: Sir Samuel Garth
Source: Epistle to the Earl of Godolphin (l. 27)
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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.
Author: Thomas Gibbons
Source: When Jesus Dwelt
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who
have risen far above him.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
[Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Persa (II, 2, 46)
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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.
[Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod
accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit;
ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: De Beneficiis (III, 1)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Amiens at II, vii)
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Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful
were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being
members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, ii)
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This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms,
Quite vanquished 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 Caesar fell.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (King Lear at I, iv)
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All the stored vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at IV, i)
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I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at III, iv)
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One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering.
[Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one;
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Busiris
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