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Pity Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,…
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
- What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
- A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
- And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
- Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
- She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got…
- Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for…
- It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all…
More Pity Quotes
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen
- What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. — Joseph Addison
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. — Stephen Vincent Benet
- Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. — William Blake
- In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for… — Mary J. Blige
- I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be… — Lionel Blue
- It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom… — David Brainerd
- When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes
- The sea has neither meaning nor pity. — Anton Chekhov