Compassion Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

— Abraham Lincoln

“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence…

— Graham Greene

“As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother…

— Truman Capote

“He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with offenders, and…

— Mark Twain

“He looked with horror round the room: nobody could say he hadn't done right to get away from this, to commit any crime... When…

— Graham Greene

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to…

— Alan Lomax

“He had a choice,’ I said. ‘He could have spent his days helping old ladies across the street. He could have volunteered in the…

— Lee Child

“Mercy but murders pardoning those who kill.”

— William Shakespeare

“The termagant who had dragged him out on long, boring walks, who had tried in vain to censor his reading, who had labeled him…

— Jonathan Keates

“Buried feelings of anger and vengeance washed over him as he thought back to the time he discovered who his real father was and…

— Angel Sefer

“Here, supposing that neither Harry Perkins nor the servants nor some outsider called ‘X’ had killed Stephen Anthony, was a murderer. He or she…

— Richard Lockridge

“Being dead didn't make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch”

— Nora Roberts