Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up… — Jennifer Lawrence 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
“However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why?… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence. — Stjepan Mesic Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment… — Moby Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
