Quotes by Pity 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. John Calvin pityrottenmisery Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. Jim Rohn pityhe-manmen Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. John Godfrey Saxe degeneratespityhuman-nature Kind pity chokes my spleen. John Donne pitychokekind I learn to pity woes so like my own. John Dryden pitywoemy-own 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. Jonathan Franzen pitylittlesideas But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. Jonathan Lethem self-pitypityself Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. Jonathan Tropper fartpityive-learned Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. Joseph Henry pathospityinfinite Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity. Joseph Hertz pitypunishmentdivine All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did. Josephine Hart pitysurvivalpeople Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. Joseph Addison incitementpityhumanity Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. Josh Billings pitycost Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. Josh Billings pitycost The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. Josh Billings pityunfortunate I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. Josh Billings pitycuressorrow Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. Josh Billings pitypovertykind In extreme danger fear feels no pity. Julius Caesar pitydangerfear It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power. Kate Horsley pitynoblemen I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for. Katharine Fullerton Gerould pityvocabularyculture«345678910111213»
