Pity Quotes - Page 12

• We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  People, Reason, Wrong Reasons

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.591, Library of America

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• pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

  Francoise Sagan

  Uplifting, Military, Sentiments

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• [On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.

  Betty Rollin

  Crazy, Quality, Want

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• Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

  Pierre Corneille

  Gratitude, Generosity, Birth

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• What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Fall, Errors

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

  Fanny Fern

  Envy, Gold, Should

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.19

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• Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

  Phyllis McGinley

  New York, Archer, Love Is

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• Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

  Alice Meynell

  Art, Laughter, Would Be

  Alice Meynell (1925). “Essays”

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• Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

  Margaret Deland

  Years, Humanity, Age

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• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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• Have pity on a dinosaur.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Dinosaurs, Politics

  Song: Dinosaur

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• It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

  Marat Safin

  Years, Tennis, Radical Change

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• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Criss Jami

  Compassion, Auto Tune, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

  William Blake

  World, Mercy, Release

  William Blake (1885). “The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake”

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• I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.

  Richard Denney

  People, World, Stuck

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• I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

  Marilyn Manson

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• When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Girl, Moving, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Respect, People, Community

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• Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

  Isak Dinesen

  Believe, Grandmother, Thinking

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• At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Gentleman, Next

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• What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

  Philip Massinger

  Action, Speak, Should

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1813). “The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence”, p.281

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• I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Thinking, Giving

  "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu". news.bbc.co.uk. June 2, 2006.

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• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Independent, Eye

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Doors, Self

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• The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

  Aristotle

  Anger, Men, Judging

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.21, Aeterna Press

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