I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys! — Robert Donat Copy Share Image
Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion,… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that… — James Marsden 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.'… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die… — John Calvin 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
“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
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