Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer… — Bertolt Brecht
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. — Woodrow Wilson
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. — Samuel Johnson
People in distress never think that you feel enough. — Samuel Johnson
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. — Samuel Johnson
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never… — Margot Asquith
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. — Edwin Arnold
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery! — Enid Bagnold
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse… — Elbert Hubbard
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice. — Elizabeth Bowen
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. — Euripides
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. — Mason Cooley
Self-pity is the simplest luxury. — Rita Mae Brown
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. — Jacques Barzun
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and… — Mary Astell
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. — James Agate
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? — Ivan Turgenev
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave… — Bernard M. Oliver
You Israeli you should never become lenient if you would kill your enemies. You shall have no pity on them until you shall have destroyed… — Menachem Begin
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and… — James Loeb
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be… — Marat Safin
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called… — Criss Jami

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