"Ingrate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... own surprise, I didn't want to think of the motor-car. It had brought us to older places, but within this walled quadrangle it was as if we had come full tilt into a picture; and the automobile was not an artistic touch. Ingrate that I was, I turned my back upon the Aigle, and was thankful when Sir Samuel and Lady Turnour walked out of my sight around the corner of the picture. I pretended, when they had disappeared, that ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... himself a moment, then he said slowly: "Thou didst save Egypt, thou and my friend"—he gestured towards David"—and my life also, and all else that is worth. Therefore bounty, and safety, and all thy desires were thy due. Kaid is no ingrate—no, by the hand of Moses ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... as a true and faithful servant," said the Elector kindly, "and I am no ingrate. You shall experience this hereafter, for I shall find means to reward my old ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... old ingrate," reproved Kitty Stevenson. "If you talk that way we'll not let you on ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough
... have always occupied it on The Laird's sufferance, so I do not think, Mr. Daney," she explained, with a faint smile, "that I shall turn pirate and ingrate now. If you will be good enough to bring me over twenty-five hundred dollars in cash to-day, I will give you a clearance for the loss of the Brutus and abandon the Sawdust Pile to you within the ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
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