Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Bennett Cerf
Walter Scott
Stephen Jay Gould
C. S. Lewis
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Richard M. Nixon
All authors
Today's birthdays
1917 - Anthony Burgess
1976 - Rashida Jones
1993 - Conor Coady
1965 - Sylvie Guillem
1982 - Kimberly Caldwell
1935 - Tony Campolo
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Businessman
Celebrity
Designer
Actress
Architect
Activist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Pitiable Quotes
Pitiable Quotes
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
Toni Morrison
People
Thought
Other
Deficient
About
Something
Never
Absorb
Exclusion
Looked
Insult
Always
Person
Pitiable
Acts
The king is full of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his weakness for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is possible to conceive.
Marie Antoinette
Love
Me
King
Possible
Madame
Weakness
See
Silliest
Tenderly
Impertinent
Toward
Conceive
Most
Him
His
Pitiable
Full
Who
Creature
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
Mary Shelley
Myself
Soul
Humanity
Miserable
Tree
Others
Intolerable
Entered
Wrecked
My Soul
Shall
Soon
Felt
Am
Exhibit
Cease
Survive
Pitiable
Then
Should
Bolt
Spectacle
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Anthony Trollope
Poverty
Hideous
Rural
Misery
Picturesque
Pitiable
Suburban
Should
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
Patrick Modiano
You
Writing
Beginning
Young
Constraint
Lay
Writer
Beyond
Powers
Sort
Very
Pitiable
Experienced
Heavy
Bare
Means
Your
Things
Starting
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
Andrew Pyper
Me
Satan
Paradise
Argument
Lost
Few
Dilemma
Carried
Details
About
Remembered
True
Protagonist
Read
Pitiable
Little
Persuasive
University