GRATITUDE
AND INGRATITUDE

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.

Thomas Fuller

The earth produces nothing viler than an ungrateful man.

Horace

Ingratitude is the sepulcher of love.

Portuguese proverb

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,

Thou art not so unkind

As man’s ingratitude.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Ingratitude sickens the heart, chills and thickens goodwill’s lifeblood.

William Wilberforce