Ingrates Quotes

• INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Benefits, Charity, Objects

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

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• You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

  Plautus

  Ingratitude

  "Persa". II. 2. 46,

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• Satanism represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Kindness, Satanic, Satanism

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• Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

  Louis XIV

  Office, Political, Politics

  Molière, quoting Louis XIV, "Siècle de Louis Quatorze" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.

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• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

  William Shakespeare

  Monsters, Being Me, Should

  William Shakespeare (1834). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.11

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• I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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• Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Darkness

  "How To Find The Holy Grail of Joy" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Esteem never makes ingrates.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Esteem

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• I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Children, Dad, Mean

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• They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

  William S. Burroughs

  Science, People, Ego

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.348, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  May, Exception, Humans

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Stupid, Winning, Dedication

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• We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.

  Rich Lowry

  School, Successful, Law

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• To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

  Nuruddin Farah

  Gis, Skinny, Somali

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