Pity Quotes
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
William Cowper
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How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
Blaise Pascal
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All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
William Shakespeare
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
William Shakespeare
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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
William Cowper
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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
Cary Elwes
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
Lao Tzu
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
Shirley Chisholm
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
Ava Gardner
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Elaine A. Cannon
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Pity's tears are spontaneous.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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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.
Kristen Stewart
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An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.
Chenjerai Hove
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God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
Oswald Chambers
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
Kate Horsley
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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
Dan Castellaneta
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Victims take pity on victims.
Antonio Porchia
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Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin