Action Quote by Philip Massinger

“That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true —a foolish figure,”

— William Shakespeare

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

— Eloise Jarvis McGraw

“tis true, 'tis pity, and 'tis pity, 'tis true.' what delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs. Harmon Andrews!”

— Anonymous

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

— Peace Pilgrim

Speak neither well nor ill of yourself; if well, men won't believe you, if ill they will believe a lot more than you say.

— Vikrant Parsai

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

— John Tillotson

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

— Plato

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do…

— Charlotte Brontë

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their…

— Roger Ascham

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

— Dean Koontz

It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex.

— Annie Sprinkle