Quotes with thankless

  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

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  • William Shakespeare How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
    To have a thankless child!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
    The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2016) 747
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • August Strindberg That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • William Hazlitt The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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