Gratitude is expensive. [ Gibbon ]

Thanks, the exchequer of the poor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gratitude is a species of justice. [ Johnson ]

The still small voice of gratitude. [ Gray ]

Thankfulness is the tune of angels. [ Spenser ]

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [ Massieu ]

The debt immense of endless gratitude. [ Milton ]

Love, Gratitude, and Pity wept at once. [ Thomson ]

The unwilling gratitude of base mankind! [ Pope ]

Is no return due from a grateful breast? [ Dryden ]

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. [ Auerbach ]

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
A grateful mind is a great mind. [ Seeker ]

Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues. [ Theodore Parker ]

The public have neither shame nor gratitude. [ Hazlitt ]

If I only have will to be grateful, I am so. [ Seneca ]

Small service is true service while it lasts. [ Wordsworth ]

Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come. [ Talleyrand ]

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude. [ Goldsmith ]

Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered. [ Goldsmith ]

Gratitude is a cross-road that leads quickly to love. [ T. Gautier ]

Gratitude preserves old friendship, and procures new. [ Proverb ]

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. [ George MacDonald ]

In every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude. [ La Bruyere ]

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors. [ Sir Robert Walpole ]

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. [ William Shakespeare ]

A single grateful thought towards fiea%-en is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude - roots that can be pulled up. [ George Eliot ]

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 ]

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. [ Colton ]

Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come. [ La Roche ]

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. [ Rousseau ]

It is a species of agreeable servitude, to be under an obligation to those we esteem. [ Queen Christina ]

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. [ Corneille ]

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal. [ Charron ]

Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. [ Goldsmith ]

Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead. [ Cervantes ]

It is a pleasure appropriate to man for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [ Ovid ]

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. [ H. Ballou ]

Cherish every sentiment of respect for your mother; she merits your warmest gratitude, esteem, and veneration. [ Percival ]

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]

Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. [ Pope ]

Fame, as a river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off; so exemplary writers depend not upon the gratitude of the world. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

When we exaggerate the tenderness of our friends towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own merit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. [ Goldsmith ]

Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation. [ Goldsmith ]

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. [ Landor ]

There are three kinds of praise, - that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude. [ Colton ]

It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]

In the hour of distress and misery, the eye of every mortal turns to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? My friend. [ W. S. Landor ]

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]

Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]