I pity those who have no taste for reading. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
“No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best. That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. — John Berryman Copy Share Image
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared.… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity’s sake? Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with "fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people" and, yes, I… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
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