Famous quotes containing the word ungrateful:
“There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal
than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)