Pity Quotes

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats.

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.