The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.[La memoria de’ benefici apresso l’ingratitudine è fragile.]
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Most people return small Favours, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with Ingratitude.
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou show’st thee in a child than the sea-monster!
Ingratitude is what you meet with first and last in this life.
Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any taint of vice.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
