Quotes by Pitiful Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed. Charles Osgood pitiful spoken-word Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful. Christian Nestell Bovee pitiful complaints complaining I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.' Dolly Parton pitiful poor When you see fair hair Be pitiful. George Eliot pitiful fairs hair You can't be pitiful AND powerful. Joyce Meyer pitiful powerful It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies. Publilius Syrus pitiful fortune enemy