Pity Quotations

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

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

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

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

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.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

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.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

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

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

The people who died here were victims of one of the cruelest visitations of evil this nation has ever seen, ... But we offer them today not pity but honor, for as much as any soldier who ever fought in any war, they paid the price for our freedom.

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the thape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Never take yourself too seriously.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

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

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

There is no doubt that Scott would tell you today that the job in Iraq has to be finished. Scott felt very strongly about what had to be done in Iraq and fully supported it. I used to pity anyone who had a different opinion about Iraq than my brother.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

Let this iniquity be viewed in its true magnitude, and in the shocking light in which it has been set in this conversation; let the wretched case of the poor blacks be considered with proper pity and benevolence, together with the probably dreadful consequence to this land of retaining them in bondage, and all objection against liberating them would vanish.

Lucky enough that Mike Mularkey was in a position to make a pity hire, and I think everyone knows that's what it is, and he put me back in here.

Nobody is going to have pity on you, ... If our guys are looking for pity, they're not going to get it from me. And I'm not going to get it from anybody. We just have to worry about ourselves and do the best we can.

Nobody is going to give us any pity and we're not going to pity ourselves. We just need to play better.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

If the Senate cannot ease off the executive branch, it can at least have pity on the people.

Bayern and Chelsea were the two teams we hoped to avoid. Unfortunately we were drawn with one of the two. We have not been lucky with the draw. Bayern is one of the top European clubs, and it's a pity that one of the two sides must be knocked out early in the competition.

I lost a great chance, it is a pity and I am sorry.

I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that my agent gave me the wrong scene or lines. They would take pity on me and hand me the right scene. I would act like I had never seen this before - and then do pretty well considering I had already rehearsed it.

God Himself takes pity on His humble servants, and makes them His own.

He never asked us. If he had asked the question, we probably would have been able to answer him. But we were so involved in 2006, 2007 that we didn't think it was that important to conclude something for 2007 in 2005. Frankly, if really he thinks that, then it's a pity he didn't discuss it with us. He never asked me the question 'Are you going to be there in 2007 or 08?' because I would have answered yes.

We threw it away at the end. We had the game in the bag. It's just a pity we couldn't finish it off.

Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity

I admire him. When he goes through something difficult, he neither asks for pity nor does he cover up what he feels. He just honestly is . It's a very unusual kind of honesty.

It is a great pity we had only one bottle not enough to revive that proof of the afterlife, though enough to revive some gentle regrets

It is a great pity for justice that the (Milosevic) trial will not be completed and no verdict will be rendered.

I think that there are more films being made with more, you know ... American-English (collaboration) ... It's a pity there's that not that interchange, we can do it so easily,

It is a pity that when we made such an important change, we didn't get any commitment from the U.S. and other countries

It is a pity that we missed out on the points but that was not the best afternoon for me.

It is a pity he has another injury. We are playing well, we have a lot of clean sheets, Pepe Reina is playing well, we have Jerzy and Scott Carson is a very good young goalkeeper.

It is a pity for him (Arnold) and also for me, ... It is always great to compete with great rivals.

Last night was disappointing. But you can wallow in your self pity or you can go out there and do it again -- and I did.

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

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

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

Physically, I couldn't fold myself into a gray, invisible bank clerk. I just thought, It's the most amazing part. It's a pity that I'm wrong for it.

I think he had quite bad losses, for example, in the Davis Cup against us...He was supposed to be in the Top 10. I think it's a little bit a pity because he's quite talented guy. But he can be there, but he needs to be more brave, that's for sure.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

I was playing very well, I was very confident and the match was pretty open so it was a pity to end it this way.

My biggest fear is that no one will bid on my envelope, ... So have pity on me and bid on it.

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.

We can't feel pity for ourselves, cause the opponents don't. We're trying to beat them and they're trying to beat us.

We dropped a few minutes on the second stage today when we had to change a front left puncture, which is a real pity as we were quickest on stage one. I think we'll need a lot of luck for a win now but I'm happy with our pace this afternoon; the car is feeling good and we only have to make minor changes tonight. We have another repeated set of stages tomorrow; most people seem to make up time the second time through so I prefer to try and take a bit of an advantage on the first run.

We have supported Russia's proposal to Iran with respect to nuclear fuel enrichment on Russian territory and it's a pity that Iran has not accepted this.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Pity swells the tide of love.

Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It's a pity it's taken too long to happen.

Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity of all pities that those who lead never learn, and the few wise men among those who follow never quite avail to teach. But faith given and allegiance pledged are stronger than fear ...