Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

He who believes that new benefits make great men forget old injuries deceives himself.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

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.

I love to remember my enemies and I love to get my enemies. I had some enemies. I had people that really I helped a lot. And when I needed the help, in some cases, they were not there for me.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Thank you for nothing.

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

People avenge themselves for the favors done them.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

Ingratitude is monstrous.

I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.