Pity Quotes

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 Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

'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 stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.