It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Odd as this might sound, I suppose I’m glad you’re here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]
The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.
But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.
Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.
