Pity Quotes

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by Don Marquis    ( comments )

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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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by Samuel Johnson    ( comments )

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Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation more

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge    ( comments )

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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by Josh Billings    ( comments )

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

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

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by Marcus Tullius Cicero    ( comments )

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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by Henry David Thoreau    ( comments )

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Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is more

Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

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by Miguel De Unamuno    ( comments )

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

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

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by George Eliot    ( comments )

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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by Edna St. Vincent Millay    ( comments )

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Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

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by Dagobert D. Runes    ( comments )

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Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor more

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

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