It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s.… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“When people pity you, it's like they don't realize that the exact same thing is coming for them. And then I feel… — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“Pity. I might have been willing to listen to some paltry excuses.” She looked at the clock on the mantel. “Pack your… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“it was a pity Mr. Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it… — James Fox Copy Share Image
“Brothers who are alive today, when we are gone, do not be hard, but pity us Beg God’s forgiveness for us now,… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble… — John Philip Kemble Copy Share Image
A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I absolutely love going to parties and love going on trips just as long as they're not pity parties or guilt trips.… — Chantal Dyal Copy Share Image
I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
“Aragorn looked at him with kindly pity. 'Very well, Frodo, son of Drogo,' he said. 'You shall have an hour, and you… — J.R.R Tolkien Copy Share Image
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
