Sympathy Quotes

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.