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Pity Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason…
- It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
- Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in…
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