Top 12 False Gratitude Quotes
#1. Honorifics and meaningless ritual phrases of greeting, leave-taking, permission-asking, and false gratitude, please, thank you, you're welcome, goodbye, fossil relics of primitive hypocrisy - all were stumbling blocks to truthfulness between producer-consumers.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me directly.
Greg Giraldo
#3. What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#4. I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.
Penelope Keith
#5. Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. I was really sick and I walked outside of the bus and realised; oh no I'm not allowed to be sick. I'm not allowed to say; sorry no I can't pose with you for a photo because I'm sick. I am a super human now, or I have to be one.
Katy Perry
#7. The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
T-Pain
#9. The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!
Charles Dickens
#10. I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
Pat Buckley
#11. I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
Manolo Blahnik
#12. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.
Shannon L. Alder