Conditional Giving Quotes

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?

Freedom works both ways. They're free to keep their mouths shut. .I'm also free not to give the money.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.