Quotes of: Pity Keyword

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

G.I. Gurdjieff

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John Gardner

Max Bialystock: You have exactly ten seconds to change that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect!

The Producers

Capt. Insp. McClain: Frank, has anyone ever told you that you have a tendency toward self-pity? Frank Serpico: No, you're the first.

Serpico

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

Haniel Long

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Robin Hood: What a pity her manners don't match her looks.

The Adventures of Robin Hood

W.P. Mayhew: I pays my baby love and she pays me back with pity. The basest coin there is...

Barton Fink

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Abraham Cahan

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Amy Lowell

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, "Run away, you poor child.

Wilhelm Grimm

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

Willie Wells

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

Zig Ziglar

I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?" "That is so." "Pity. Pity. You've missed a lot. Everyone should be made to study the classics, if I had my way." Poirot shrugged his shoulders. " , I have got on very well ...

The Labours of Hercules

Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n, Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom So strictly, but much more to pity incline: No sooner did thy dear and only Son Perceive thee purpos'd not to doom frail Man So strictly, but much more to ...

Paradise Lost

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Collected Fiction

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

Day Watch

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog