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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

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

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

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.49, HarperCollins UK

God has pity on kindergarten children

Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.18, Univ of California Press

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

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

All pity is self-pity.

"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