Pitiful Quotes

126 quotes by 117 authors

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Wonâ€™t I? in pitiful… — Joanne Harris
The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's noÂ concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and theyÂ that love… — Joseph Glanvill
How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our… — Christiaan Huygens
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle… — Norman Corwin
I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for… — Ahmed Ben Bella
I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that… — Andrzej Sapkowski
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. — Elizabeth I
Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this… — Gladys Aylward
"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow:… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than… — Khalil Gibran
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,… — Heinrich Heine
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies. — Publilius Syrus
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function. — Edmund Burke
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man. — Pliny the Elder
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took… — Mark Twain
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so… — Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body. — Jim Rohn
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding. — Gene Tunney
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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