Quotes on Pity

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Author: Lyman Abbott

'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.

Author: Mary Astell

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.

Author: Sidonie Colette

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Author: Rebecca Davis

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Author: Theodore Dreiser

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Author: Stanley Kubrick

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Author: Jerry Lewis

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Author: Horace Mann

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Author: Olin Miller

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

Author: Ida Outhwaite

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

Author: Manfred Richthofen

Pity is treason.

Author: Maximilien Robespierre

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Author: Edwin Robinson

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Author: Jean Rousseau

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

Author: Mark Twain

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Author: Voltaire