Ungracious Quotes

There are a number of Democrats I chat with who think it's a big, big mistake for Democrats to try to smear him or attack him ungraciously... But then again there are others who believe they have to attack him, if nothing more than to prepare for the next nominee, to try to influence the president so they'll appoint a more moderate nominee. - Orrin Hatch

It seems ungracious, not so much even to the queen, but people at the ceremony and those watching around the world. - David Flint

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? - Jean De La Bruyere

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson