(16 quotes found)
“Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian graces; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.”
Billy Graham
“ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude --a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.”
Ambrose Bierce
“ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .”
“BENEFACTOR, n. One who makes heavy purchases of ingratitude, without, however, materially affecting the price, which is still within the means of all.”
“And as for the boy, his parents were believers and we feared lest he should make disobedience and ingratitude to come upon them: / So we desired that their Lord might give them in his place one better than him in purity and nearer to having compassion.”
quran
“A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him”
Samuel Johnson
