Luc de Clapiers Quotes

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I firmly believe that to whom much is given, much is expected.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

You don't think we should do things for them people for nothin?' ... You don't think they expect to get it for nothin', do you? What's fair is fair, you know.

Favors granted always become defined as rights.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

I have to live up to the love I am receiving.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

Some people don't feel like they need to give anything back because it's like, "Oh, if you're famous, you can just keep giving, and it doesn't matter." It's not just about money. It's not just about giving people gifts or whatever.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!