Quotations
Quotes:
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity.
View quotes by Wilfred Owen
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
View quotes by Margot Asquith
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
View quotes by Honore De Balzac
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
View quotes by Anita Roddick
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
View quotes by Don Marquis
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
View quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
View quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
View quotes by John Gardner
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
View quotes by André Gide
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
View quotes by Andre Maurois
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
View quotes by Anatole France
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
View quotes by George Eliot
Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
View quotes by Aristotle
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Helps
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity
View quotes by Alexander Maclaren
It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game [after being whipped 3 - 0 by Middlesborough]
View quotes by Jose Mourinho
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection
View quotes by Andre Maurois
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
View quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet
Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
View quotes by Barry Cornwall
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