Ungrateful Quotes - Page 6

• I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Said, Dangerous

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

  David Walker

  Mother, Father, Grateful

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• The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting. For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours; they offer you their blood, their goods, their life, and their children, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches, they revolt.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Children, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli , Ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Fickle, Hypocritical

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• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Son, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?

  Julia Rose

  Gratitude, Stars, Grateful

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• What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!

  Kristen Stewart

  Rip, Thinking, People

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Discovery, Nuts

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

  Ann Voskamp

  Humanity, Firsts, Sin

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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• The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency

  Gary North

  Exercise, Commercial Banks, Goal

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• The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heart, Character, Long

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.134, UPNE

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• He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

  Edward Young

  Guilt, May, Virtue

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.259

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• People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Untouchables

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Stupid, Selfish, Mean

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• [Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Opposites

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• Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Gratitude, Sorrow, Tears

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• A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grateful, Men, Favors

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• Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

  Andre Gide

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

  Mickey Rooney

  Funny, Complaining, Looks

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• 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.

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Men, Race, Fellow Man

  Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”

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• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Gratitude, Love Is, Axes

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres

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• To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Jobs, World, Sometimes

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• 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.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Blessing, Liberty

  "A Letter to His Countrymen". Book by James F. Cooper, 1834.

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• People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stars, Sleep, Thinking

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• There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Reading, Important, Technique

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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