Brutes leave ingratitude to man. [ Colton ]

The wicked are always ungrateful. [ Cervantes ]

Ingratitude is the world's reward. [ German Proverb ]

Ingratitude is treason to mankind. [ Thomson ]

Ingratitude is the daughter of pride. [ Proverb ]

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man. [ L'Estrange ]

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child. [ William Shakespeare ]

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural.
The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. [ Rivarol ]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [ Plautus ]

I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. [ Richelieu ]

Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. [ De Boufflers ]

Throw no stones into the well whence you have drunk. [ Talmud ]

A too quick return of an obligation is a sort of ingratitude. [ Proverb ]

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering. [ Syrus ]

Ingratitude makes the receiver worse, but the benefactor better. [ Proverb ]

Everybody exclaims against ingratitude. Are there so many benefactors? [ Alfred Bougeart ]

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done. [ Plautus ]

Ingratitude calls forth reproaches, as gratitude brings fresh kindnesses. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

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

The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. [ From the Italian ]

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well. [ Alexander the Great ]

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of. [ Swift ]

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate. [ Du Cceur ]

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. [ Young ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. [ Richelieu ]

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. [ South ]

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. [ Milton ]

Pride is of such intimate connection with ingratitude that the actions of ingratitude seem directly resolvable into pride as the principal reason of them. [ South ]

Everybody takes pleasure in returning small obligations; many go so far as to acknowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with ingratitude. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. [ Goldsmith ]

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]