Pity Quotes

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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 never just.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Pity is treason.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.