I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce… — Teju Cole 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
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy, as she dropped asleep that night. How often we all do so! And what a pity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
