Pity

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

- Rudyard Kipling Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

- Mark Twain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that The rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.

- Ezra Pound Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

- Ernst Toller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

- Anton Chekhov Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Honore de Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.

- Gustave Flaubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Theodore Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

- Ian Hamilton Finlay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Abraham Cahan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

- E. Housman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

- Barry Cornwall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

- Lionel Blue Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a pity because I think we deserved to win but sometimes you win matches you really shouldn't have. We had about 34 shots on goal but that's football.

- Gerard Houllier Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a real pity we had that puncture. The fight with Dani was fantastic. But I'm not sure that we could have conquered the first place. To finish second here is for me a great result on my first outing in Germany

- Colin McRae Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

- Patty Duke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I must say it really was a pity. When I spun I was very close to Alonso. During the pit spot I lost a lot of time. It's a pity that I've come away from this race with no points.

- Felipe Massa Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He's a very important player for the national team. It would be a pity not to have him in the World Cup. We will be waiting for him and will do everything possible to recover him in time.

- Marcello Lippi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

- John Berger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

- Mason Cooley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

- Pedro Almodovar Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

- JOHN Templeton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are quite happy with the bronze medal but it was a pity that we were not in our best form to compete here.

- Shen Xue Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Samuel Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I can take you to a spot right now and show you more harsh conditions People lying on cots, not knowing where their next meal is going to come from, not knowing where they're going to stay. (This) is nothing compared to what they're going through. . . . We're not looking for a pity party here.

- Joe Horn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes