{"quotes":[{"text":"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.","author":"Edmund Burke","tags":["ingratitude"],"id":20161,"author_id":"Edmund+Burke"},{"text":"Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","gratitude","ingratitude","sin","virtue"],"id":36958,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"Now,' cried the fiend, 'follow me! You must understand that I cannot get out by the great gate - the porter will not suffer that. Once here, there is no retreat. Follow me, therefore: we will just go to your house, where you shall dress yourself; for you can hardly go to a ball in your present costume - especially as it is not a bal masque. Mind and wrap yourself well up in your winding-sheet, for the nights are cold, and you may feel unpleasantly touched by it.'As he said this, Satan laughed malignantly; and I continued silently to walk after him.'I am sure,' continued he, 'that, in spite of the service I am doing you, you do not yet like me. You are always thus, you men - ungrateful to your friends. Not that I blame ingratitude; it is a vice upon which I pride myself, since I invented it myself; and I must say, that it is one most in vogue. But I do wish to see you a little more merry - it is the only thing I ask of you.'I answered not, but still followed my guide, white as a statue, and as cold. I was silent; but, at the pauses in the fiend's voice, I could hear my teeth chatter against each other, and my bones rattle in my body. ('The Dead Man's Story').","author":"James Hain Friswell","tags":["devil","ingratitude","satan"],"id":37434,"author_id":"James+Hain+Friswell"},{"text":"Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["bad","complacency","good","ingratitude","patience","perception","slowness","speed"],"id":37887,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"A little 'thank you' that you will say to someone for a 'little favour' shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen 'greater favours'. Learn to say 'thank you' and why not?","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["doors","favour","favours","food-for-thought","grateful","gratitude","greater-favour","ingratitude","key","little","little-things","thank","thank-god","thank-you","thankful","thankfully","thanks","thanksgiving","unlock"],"id":77370,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.","author":"Robert M. Pirsig","tags":["ingratitude","name-calling","technology"],"id":89120,"author_id":"Robert+M.+Pirsig"},{"text":"Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.","author":"William George Jordan","tags":["charity","gratitude","ingratitude"],"id":91559,"author_id":"William+George+Jordan"},{"text":"If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["be-thankful","be-thankful-for-each-day","be-thankful-for-what-you-have","be-thankful-to-be-alive","blessing","blessings","goodness","grateful","gratitude","ingratitude","life-lesson","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","thankful","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":108204,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"This was the most unkindest cut of all  For when the noble Caesar saw him stab  Ingratitude  more strong than traitor's arm  Quite vanquish'd him  then burst his mighty heart.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["ingratitude"],"id":123458,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"...And no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.","author":"Kate Atkinson","tags":["gratitude","ingratitude","quid-pro-quo"],"id":136429,"author_id":"Kate+Atkinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}