Best Ingratitude Quotes

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. — Samuel Johnson

The greater the obligation in many cases, the deeper the ingratitude. — Robert Barr

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. — Robert Brault

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. — Alain De Botton

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude. — Ambrose Bierce

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ. — R.A. Torrey

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude. — Brigham Young

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. — Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins. — Billy Graham

Brutes leave ingratitude to man. — Charles Caleb Colton

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude. — Leonardo Da Vinci

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others. — Jean Lorrain

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? — Jean Paul

Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh. — Luigi Pulci

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility. — Orrin Woodward

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday's mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow's problems, and ingratitude for today's blessings. — William Arthur Ward

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions. — Henry Fielding

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much. — Pierre Corneille

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good. — William George Jordan

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. — Jean De La Bruyere

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude. — Frederick The Great

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude. — Mokichi Okada

My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time. — C.S. Lewis

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

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher