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Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than the sea-monster.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
[Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
[Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, read more
This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms,
Quite vanquished 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 Caesar fell.
Ingratitude is treason to mankind
Ingratitude is treason to mankind
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, read more
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.
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime,
It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
Ingratitude's a weed of every clime,
It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one;
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one;
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who
have risen far above him.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who
have risen far above him.