Unreciprocated Kindness Quotes

If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of 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.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

I could write a book - if I could write, ha ha - about how many times I've been ripped off lending money to people. I'm an absolutely unbelievable soft touch. Unbelievable. I never learn my lesson.

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

I always wanted to be liked, and I thought that if you were nice to everyone then everyone would like you. That's not always the case.

There were instances when I felt cheated because my feeling of social service was neither acknowledged or reciprocated by the second party. It is with growing age and experience that I realised, I was doing it for myself and not for others. Hence, I found my happiness and satisfaction in it.

Nobody gave me anything.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.