Piteous Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various…
— William Davenant
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The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
— William Shakespeare
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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from…
— Mark Twain
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Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes…
— William Shakespeare
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I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine…
— Lois Lowry
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..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long…
— Charles Bukowski
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Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of…
— Michael Chabon
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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency…
— Dorothy Dix
Who Wrote These Piteous Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Piteous Quotes as follows: