Quotes About Gratitude

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.

— William Shakespeare

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

— Mark Twain

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

— Alphonse Karr

Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The public has neither shame nor gratitude.

— William Hazlitt

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

— W. C. Bennett

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington