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“An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from”
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“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.”
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“Ingratitude is monstrous”
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“Ingratitude is treason to mankind”
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“Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
[Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes 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.”
John Dryden Quotes 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.”
Sir Samuel Garth Quotes 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.”
Thomas Gibbons Quotes 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.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes 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.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes 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.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at I, iv)
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“All the stored vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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“What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one;
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Busiris
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