Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Reform is born of need, not pity.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
