Ungrateful Quotes

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. (Kahlil Gibran)
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. View quote
William Hazlitt
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state. View quote
Nesta Helen Webster
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father. View quote
Peter Fonda
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else. View quote
Suzanne Farrell
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. View quote
John Updike
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty. View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
A man may be ungrateful but is less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him. (John Calvin)
It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. View quote
Rhonda Byrne
I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life. View quote
Sofia Vergara
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section. View quote
Jonny Greenwood
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. View quote
Breyten Breytenbach
I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot. View quote
Michael Lee-Chin
I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government. View quote
Robert Kocharian
Nothing is more chilling than such a spectacle of unremitting self-sacrifice. This is a woman born to be abandoned by her ungrateful husband at the very pinnacle of success she helped to make for him, for a shameless hussy of nineteen. View quote
Germaine Greer
This painting, this work you miss so much [the two sisters Morisot painted a lot together] is a cause of much trouble and concern, you know this as well as I do and yet, child that you are, you are already weeping for the loss of the very thing that darkened you mood only recently. Think of it, yours is not the very worst lot: you have a real affection, a devoted heart that is yours an yours alone, do not be ungrateful for the dealings of fate, think of the great sorrow that is solitude; whatever anyone says or does, womankind has immense need of affection; to want to retreat into yourself is to attempt the impossible. View quote
Berthe Morisot
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence. View quote
John Updike
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow. (John Adams)
The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes. View quote
Alain de Botton
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. View quote
Seneca
I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic? View quote
Cassandra Clare