Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
If someone’s ungrateful and you tell him he’s ungrateful, okay, you’ve called him a name. You haven’t solved anything.
It seemed so awfully ungrateful to go away and leave the laurels to their fate when they had always been so obliging and hidden me from Nurse with their poor, ugly, sooty Victorian leaves.
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful ... we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
We like everything instantaneous. We have the fruit of patience inside, but it is being worked to the outside. Sometimes God takes His time about bringing us our full deliverance. He uses the difficult period of waiting to stretch our faith and to let patience have her perfect work. God’s timing is perfect. He is never late.