Quotes
Quotes about Pity
I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; . . . . Though the latitude's rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------ does cooks.
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.
And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
Pity is treason.
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
Pity the man who has a character to supportâit is worse than a large familyâhe is silent poor indeed.
