Pity Quotes
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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
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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.
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I pity you all... Most of you will die - scratch that - ALL of you.
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Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
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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.
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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.
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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
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Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
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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.
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Pity's tears are spontaneous.
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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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.
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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.
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
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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.
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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.
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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.
