Ingrate Quotes

#1. Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#2. I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#3. Here I've given him a good eight inches and a shot at immortality and he'll turn on me the same way he did last year when I asked him to pose for a few nude sketches. Ingrate

David Sedaris

#4. Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#5. INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.

Rich Lowry

#7. They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

William S. Burroughs

#8. You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Plautus

#9. But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

James Joyce

#10. Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#11. Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.

Fay Weldon

#12. Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

Nuruddin Farah

#14. For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'

Saint Bernard

#15. Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Ann Voskamp

#16. I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.

Dikembe Mutombo

#17. During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

Jerry Tarkanian

#18. Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

Andrew Mason

#19. The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Will Self

#20. No one's going to be at our hundred-year reunion. Hell, no one's coming back for the five-year reunion." That was probably true.

Amy Zhang

#21. It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self's-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.

Dada Bhagwan

#22. It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Phyllis Diller

#23. There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Cesare Pavese

#24. Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes...
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#25. It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces.

Thomm Quackenbush

#26. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

Marilynne Robinson

#27. Readability of code is now my first priority. It's more important than being fast, almost as important as being correct, but I think being readable is actually the most likely way of making it correct.

Peter Seibel