“I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
“She laughed harshly. “I don’t need pity from the likes of you, little island fox. Pity is for the weak.” Silence spun… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature, when he had a chance! Pity? It was Pity that stayed his… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“...and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reckoned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.' 'And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina.… — Rohinton Mistry 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
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“West couldn't simply leave the man like this, he didn't have it in him. "Goodman Heath," he said as he approached, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Dil-e naazuk pah uske raham aata hai mujhe Ghalib, Na kar sar-garm us kaafir ko ulfat aazmaane mein. (I feel pity for… — Hasan Suhail Siddiqui Copy Share Image
“I sing of those who cannot. To view human suffering as an abstraction, as a statement about how plucky we all are,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A sigh or tear perhaps she'll give, But love on pity cannot live: Tell her that hearts for hearts were made, And… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The… — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was not in bad health (aside from a cumulative hangover), I was still on the right side of thirty by a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“People can only get to know each other up to a point and then they make up the rest, until one day,… — Sabahattin Ali Copy Share Image
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“You are a man without a heart, Dr. Leddell. And you, Mary Cooper, are a meddler. A woman can be forgiven for… — Ann Rinaldi Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See,… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image