Anne-s-house-of-dreams Quote by Anonymous

“But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say?" "Ah, there's the rub," sighed Anne. "There are so many…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression. A Tale of Two Sisters”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of…

— Charlotte Brontë

“to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“To him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is…

— Angela Thirkell

“I felt a surge of pity, and relief. Pity because, as beautiful as they were, they were outsiders, clearly not accepted. Relief that I…

— Stephenie Meyer

“pity was the path to indifference.”

— Jessie Burton

“Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.”

— Julie Anne Long

“That plain, middle-aged face, with a grave penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a firm, safe…

— George Eliot

“we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.”

— Emily Brontë

“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”

— Albert Camus