Pity Quotes - Page 8

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.