Gift Quotes

Most popular gift quotes

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift. - Pierre Corneille quote.
The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.

Giving manners

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. - Leigh Hunt quote.
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.

men and women Adam & Eve apples

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.  Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate. - Maya Angelou quote.
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.  Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. - Walter Benjamin quote.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
— The Bible—James 1-17

biblical

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. - Euripides quote.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
That is the bitterness of a gift, that it deprives us of our liberty. - Thomas Fuller quote.
That is the bitterness of a gift, that it deprives us of our liberty.
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. - Samuel Johnson quote.
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.