Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on… — Charles Horton Cooley
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! — Pierre Corneille
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. — Charles Dickens
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser
I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me. — David Duchovny
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. — Patty Duke
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. — George Eliot
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an… — Oriana Fallaci
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos… — Mark Haddon
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. — Manly Hall
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. — Benjamin Harrison
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. — Arthur Helps
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new… — John Keats
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. — Helen Keller
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and… — Jonathan Kozol
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. — Stanley Kubrick
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. — Stanley Kubrick
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for… — D. H. Lawrence
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is… — D. H. Lawrence
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark… — Haniel Long
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. — W. Somerset Maugham
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to… — Nelson Mandela
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. — Horace Mann

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