Pity Quotes - Page 2

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

  James Agate

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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• Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Dwelling, House

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.893, Delphi Classics

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• Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

  James Joyce

  Feelings, Mind, Suffering

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

  Julie Nixon Eisenhower

  Sorry, Hate, Self

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Lovely, Self Pity, Get Up

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• How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

  Jane Porter

  Eye, Hands, Voice

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.114

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• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

  Aesop

  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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• Pity is always twinged with disgust.

  Daniel Quinn

  Disgusting

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• The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Heart, Compassion

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• Do not pity the dead, Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Inspirational Harry Potter, Potters

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• None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

  Robert Herrick

  Snares

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

  Francis Beaumont

  Path, Companionship

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• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  Vicki Baum

  Feelings

  Vicki Baum, Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1931). “Results of an Accident”

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• Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Passion, Hands, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.33

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• However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

  Pope Pius XI

  Mother, May, Life Is

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

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Degenerates, Human Nature, Poor

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• I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
  And if I die no soul will pity me:
  And wherefore should they, since that I myself
  Find in myself no pity to myself?

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Soul, Despair

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 201

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• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Anger, Hatred

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• It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

  Willa Cather

  Vanity, Easy, Has Beens

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Arthur Helps

  Poor, Relation, Ifs

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Written

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• We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Suffering, Needs, May

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.235

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• Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Agents, Benefits, Indifference

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• A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mad, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Guests, Welcome, Gentle

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.73

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