Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Rivarol

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Arundhati Roy

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

Dante Alighieri

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

William Shakespeare

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them

Maina Kiai

Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It's a pity it's taken too long to happen.

Daniel Quinn

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Ariana Grande

Never take yourself too seriously.

Arthur Helps

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is explosive power in virtue.

William Shakespeare

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.