pity quotes

• When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. (John Galsworthy) [pity/thing/power/life]
• What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. (Joseph Addison) [pity]
• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. (Georges Bernanos) [pity/irony/flight]
• Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. (Elizabeth Bowen) [pity/selfishness]
• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. (Miguel De Cervantes) [severity/right/pity]
• Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. (Charles Caleb Colton) [pity/thing/hatred/thing]
• When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. (John Galsworthy) [pity/thing/power/life]
• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. (Oliver Goldsmith) [pity]
• If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them. (William Hazlitt) [pity/mind/people/genius]
• If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards. (Samuel Johnson) [pity/state/mind/take]
• Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. (Amy Lowell) [pity]
• A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. (Andre Maurois) [pity]
• Soft pity enters an iron gate. (William Shakespeare) [pity]
• Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed. (Henry David Thoreau) [pity/character/family]
• We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed. (Henry David Thoreau) [men/character/pity/character]
• Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. (Mark Twain) [human/pity]
• Pity is for living, envy is for dead. (Mark Twain) [pity/envy]
• As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid. (Oscar Wilde) [pity]
• I don't really go out with him. And it's kind of sad because I can't walk down the street with a stroller (pram). I'm not expecting people to pity me. I'm just telling the truth. (Britney Spears) [people/pity/truth]
• There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. (Cary Elwes) [pity/damage]
• What would people think of me? I didn't want to feel their pity. (Annette Funicello) [people/think/pity]
• “If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin” (Adolf Hitler) [flower/war/pity/blood]
• It's a pity to turn our back on that very important ritual which is tragedy. It's a life-saver, a soul-saver. (Fiona Shaw) [pity]
• I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. (Teri Garr) [people/pity]

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