Pity Quotes
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But very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
George Eliot
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
Charlotte Bingham
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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
Ava Gardner
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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
William Shakespeare
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Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
Victor Hugo
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Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Renata Adler
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Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
William Shakespeare
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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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There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
Mike Mills
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
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Pity's tears are spontaneous.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
Albert Camus
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Virginia Woolf
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
Rufus Choate
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
Willa Cather
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When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.
Anthony Mary Claret