Pity Quotations | Page 3

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Contempt mates well with pity.

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

Pity is a corroding thing.

Self-pity makes people callous.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Pity drowns in numbers.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Pity is love in undress.

Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.

...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.

The trouble from outside of the club is beginning to get on our nerves. We are doing a good job here and its a real pity that we are facing this discussion. Its the players who are not scoring goals and we should be blamed not the coach.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes, ... Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well.

And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness.

And every grief that mortals share Found pity in his tenderness.

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady ; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh

The last time I checked they didn't play the playoffs after three games. We're 1-2. OK, it is what it is. We get back to work, look at the tape, make corrections. You sit here and have a pity party for yourself, and it'll get real ugly real quick.

Kind pity chokes my spleen.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

Pity enlarges the heart.

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

self-pity is better than none.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan

There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

God pity the poor novelist.

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

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

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

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

God has pity on kindergarten children

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwellThere God is dwelling too.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

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

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.