132 Pity Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Love You People Fear Pride Ambition Side Once Pity Against Engage Your Reason Need

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! Pierre Corneille

Enemy Fate Sweet Threaten Longer How Oh Pity Us Who

Reform is born of need, not pity. Rebecca Harding Davis

Born Reform Pity Need

When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities. Rene Girard

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people. Robert Falcon Scott

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. Sallust

Friendship Anger First Sentiment Every Minds Those Point Clear Opinion Offer Any Pity Dislike Should Doubtful Who

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Samuel Johnson

Complaint More Excite Contempt Than Pity Fortune Usual

I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one's even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It's a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians. Seth Shostak

Disappointment Three First Lost Visiting About Beach Fact No-One Columbus Stumbled Sadly Knows Sure Island Revenue Source Encountered Often Candidates Where In Fact Pity Which Ashore Even

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo. Stella Young

You Charity People Money Before Disability Bucks Most Hinges Quick Die Send Pitiful Pity Poor Your Notion Brings Need

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids. Susan Orlean

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. Tarana Burke

Time Me People Sympathy Survivors Pity Place Interesting Engage

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. Terry Eagleton

History Lie Writing Vision Compassion Values Sympathy Honour Sphere Moral Above Rather Feminine His Existence Domestic Begin Than Begins Infiltrate Upper-Class Confined Being Pity Centre Social Turn Whole Associated

I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.' Tom Brokaw

Good Family Cancer Internet Care Become Kind Some Object Had Most Up Going Want Pity Show Tom

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. Vince Cable

Government Class Problem World Political Challenge Price Longer Massive Understand How Political Class Pity Explain Public Us Painful Preparing Britain

Care and pity are two different things. Vince Staples

Care Different Pity Different Things Things Two

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

War Poetry Subject Pity

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. William Collins

Life Charm More Self Dead Till Mourned Pity Beloved

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable. William Ernest Henley

Good Men Earned Our Immortality Had Part Thus Well Make Shelves Doing Been Essayist Done Pity Them Poor Us Should Figure Who Companion Many Things Imaginable

To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity. William Jay Smith

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. Michael Moore

Car Drive Chrysler More Like Cry American Endorsement Pity

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