Pity Quotes - Page 7

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

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.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

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

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

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.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.