Pity Quotes
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At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.
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A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language ... not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.
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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
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Everyone today plays the same way, very dull. ... It is a pity there are no characters like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or, maybe, Ilie Nastase today.
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
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Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.
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Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
