Quotes of: Pity Keyword

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

Mike White

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Chauncey Depew

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Calloway: It had meningitis. They gave it some of Lime's penicillin. Terrible pity isn't it.

The Third Man

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Stendhal

I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl... What a pity!

Ming Xi

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

The Dante Club

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

The Return

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

The Terra-Cotta Dog

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

Anne Rice

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

Pierre Corneille

In my heart's most secret place, I pity them as angels do.

Sara Teasdale

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Tove Jansson

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

Randy Pausch

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Marat Safin

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Kurt Vonnegut