Pitied Quotes

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.