Pity Quotes

It is better to be envied than pitied. (Herodotus)
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. View quote
George Eliot
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. View quote
Ayn Rand
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. View quote
George Eliot
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. View quote
Colette
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. (F. H. Bradley)
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. View quote
William Butler Yeats
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 quote
Anatole France
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 quote
André Gide
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! View quote
Jim Rohn
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. View quote
Mark Twain
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. (George Eliot)
Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. View quote
Rubén Darío
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. View quote
Joseph Addison
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. View quote
Colette
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith