Pity Quotes - Page 11
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.219, Wordsworth Editions
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.288, First Avenue Editions
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”
"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 218, 1982.
Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.49, HarperCollins UK
Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.208, Macmillan
Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.18, Univ of California Press
First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913
She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.889
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
1605 First Stranger.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.2, l.87-8.
William Cowper, James Thomson (1851). “The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.122
"The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Interlude: West's Disease"), (p. 243), 1962.
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2593, Delphi Classics