Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountif...
Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise conquerors a...
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evi...
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
A snake deserves no pity.
Where there is no fear, there is no pity.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Better be envied than pitied.
It is better to be the object of jealousy, than of pity.
Better to hear curses than to be pitied.
Pity the stranger, even if he is rich.
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
Self-pity people are the most self-centered people.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
