Quotes of: Pity Keyword

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Charles Dickens

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

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

William Law

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Laurence Sterne

You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.

Stephen Rea

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

Gene Tunney

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

Joseph Hall

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

[from trailer] Lord Voldemort: They never learn. Such a pity.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

Walter de La Mare

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miser...

Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idle...

Down and Out in Paris and London

When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admireres, everything to fill them. When such as I, who hav...

Charles Dickens

God pity the poor novelist.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

The Fixer

Pity." "You're serious? You just met me." "And already I have a strong urge to devour you.

Beautiful Stranger

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

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

Sacrifice