Suzanne Collins Quotes

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

I hope I will be able to repay City for what they have done for me.

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

From where I came from, the way I was raised, when somebody does something for you, you always want to give something back to them.

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.

I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't!

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.