Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable… — David Ives
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance,… — Orville Dewey
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game… — Lodewijk Prins
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will… — Maximus the Confessor
I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, — Carl Panzram
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the… — G. H. Hardy
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. — Sallust
From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger. — Andrew Jackson
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. — Pope Innocent III
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did. — Josephine Hart
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have… — Kate Horsley
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. — Chauncey Depew
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in.… — Lukas Foss
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it… — Jennifer Haigh
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either — Garrison Keillor
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,… — Leo Tolstoy
Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of… — Christopher Fry

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