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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Ingratitude |
| Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat. Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. Ausonius—Epigrams. CXL. 1. | 1 |
| 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. Dryden—Alexander’s Feast. St. 4. | 2 |
| Ingratitude’s a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. Sam’l Garth—Epistle to the Earl of Godolphin. L. 27. | 3 |
| 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—When Jesus Dwelt. | 4 |
| A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. Samuel Johnson—Boswell’s Life of Johnson. 1776. | 5 |
| Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas. You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. Plautus—Persa. II. 2. 46. | 6 |
| Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est. 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. Seneca—De Beneficiis. III. 1. | 7 |
| 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. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 174. | 8 |
| Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude. Coriolanus. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 8. | 9 |
| This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Cæsar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor’s arms, Quite vanquish’d 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 Cæsar fell. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 187. | 10 |
| Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster! King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 28. | 11 |
| All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall On her ungrateful top. King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 164. | 12 |
| What, would’st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 69. | 13 |
| I hate ingratitude more in a man, Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice. Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 388. | 14 |
| Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet. One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering. Syrus—Maxims. | 15 |
| He that’s ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. Young—Busiris. | 16 |
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