Piteous Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase. — William Shakespeare
• 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
• 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
• 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
• ..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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Piteous Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 1 Piteous Quote by Michael Chabon
• 1 Piteous Quote by Dorothy Dix
• 1 Piteous Quote by Helen Hunt Jackson
• 1 Piteous Quote by Hector Hugh Munro
• 1 Piteous Quote by William Davenant
• 1 Piteous Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Piteous Quote by Lois Lowry
• 1 Piteous Quote by Charles Bukowski