War has no pity. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Pity cures envy. [ Proverb ]
Pity is akin to love. [ Southern ]
Pity enlarges the heart. [ Fenelon ]
Pity is love in undress. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Be pitiful, be courteous. [ Bible ]
I pity you and vex myself. [ Ennius ]
Pity melts the mind to love. [ Dryden ]
Pity's tears are spontaneous. [ Anna Cora Mowatt ]
Pity swells the tide of love. [ Young ]
Pity is woman's sweetest charm. [ Balzac ]
Pity often gives birth to love. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
Tenderness is increased by pity. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]
Pity, the tenderest part of love. [ Yalden ]
So sweet the blush of bashfulness
Even pity scarce can wish it less. [ Byron ]
Constant complaints never get pity. [ Proverb ]
Benign restorer of the soul!
Who ever fly'st to bring relief.
When first we feel the sure control,
Of love or pity, joy or grief. [ Rogers ]
Pity is love when grown into excess. [ Sir R. Howard ]
Fire drives out fire; so pity, pity. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wherever we meet misery, we owe pity. [ Proverb ]
A heart to pity, and a hand to bless. [ Churchill ]
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,
Uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [ Caesar ]
The envied have a brilliant fate;
Pity is given where griefs are great. [ Palladas ]
Pity best taught by fellowship of woe. [ Coleridge ]
He best can pity who has felt the woe. [ Gay ]
Love, Gratitude, and Pity wept at once. [ Thomson ]
A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad. [ Mrs. Browning ]
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. [ Alexander Pope ]
Generosity is but the pity of noble souls. [ Chamfort ]
He had never kindly heart
Nor ever cared to better his own kind,
Who first wrote satire with no pity in it. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Almost all women have hearts full of pity. [ Thackeray ]
He scorned his own who felt another's woe. [ Campbell ]
It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity. [ Abbott ]
The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity. [ Proverb ]
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. [ Lord Falkland ]
What a pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country! [ Joseph Addison ]
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain,
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the marks upon a blushing face,
Of needless shame, and self-imposed disgrace. [ Cowper ]
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? [ William Shakespeare ]
Pity and friendship seek different habitations. [ Helen Hunt ]
O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]
It is pity you are not a little more tongue-tied. [ Proverb ]
No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears,
No gem that, twinkling, hangs from beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn.
Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks
For other's woe, down virtue's manly cheeks. [ Darwin ]
True zeal is merciful and mild, can pity and forbear. [ John Newton ]
He that spends without regard shall want without pity. [ Proverb ]
To these tears we grant him life, and pity him besides. [ Virgil ]
To pity distress is but humnn; to relieve it is Godlike. [ Horace Mann ]
If you seek trouble, it is a pity but you should find it. [ Proverb ]
If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of honest men. [ Proverb ]
A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity. [ Henry Giles ]
I pity the man overwhelmed with the weight of his own leisure. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never. [ Cowper ]
It would have been pity to have, spoiled two houses with them. [ Proverb ]
Pity makes the world soft to the weak, and noble for the strong. [ Edwin Arnold ]
As great pity to see a woman cry, as to see a goose go barefoot. [ Proverb ]
To him that is afflicted, pity should be shewed from his friends. [ Bible ]
In extreme danger, fear turns a deaf ear to every feeling of pity. [ Caesar ]
And am I to suffer for it because I was born a man? Is pity a sin? [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Our pity is often misapplied, for none can tell what another feels. [ Proverb ]
Of all the paths leading to a woman's love, pity is the straightest. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea +{Drink, Drunkenness} and coffee leave us much more serious. [ Byron ]
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open as day for melting charity! [ William Shakespeare ]
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Of all the paths that lead to a woman's heart, pity is the straightest. [ Beaumont ]
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. [ Rousseau ]
I envy no man that knows more than my self, but pity them that know less. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
He that is well, and ventures to be ill, deserves no pity when it happens. [ Proverb ]
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. [ J. G. Saxe ]
Pity it is that no vanity should be put into the composition of women-kind. [ Proverb ]
I admire her who resists; I pity her who succumbs; I hate her who condemns. [ Alfred Bougeart ]
It is a pity that we so often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. [ Empress Irene ]
Once more for pity, that I may keep the flavor upon my lips till we meet again. [ Dryden ]
The pains that excite the least pity in women are those that we suffer for them. [ Chabanon ]
What a pity that we can not accomplish our salvation as easily as our damnation! [ De Finod ]
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel; savages are always cruel. [ Dr. Johnson ]
God! thy pity must have been profound when this miserable world emerged from chaos! [ A. de Musset ]
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. [ Corneille ]
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. [ Coleridge ]
It is a pity those that taught you to talk, did not also teach you to hold your tongue. [ Proverb ]
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity, that will not forsake us. [ George Eliot ]
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the peace of God is there. [ Whittier ]
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy, they do. [ Dickens ]
Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss. [ Milton ]
The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. [ Thackeray ]
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! [ Saadi ]
Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision. [ H. Giles ]
Infirmity and sickness may excite our pity; but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health. [ Rousseau ]
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. [ Bible ]
Pity is sworn servant unto love; and of this be sure, wherever it begins to make the way, it lets the master in. [ Daniel ]
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him. [ Seed ]
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. [ Theodore Parker ]
You pity a man who is lame or blind; but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. [ Sydney Smith ]
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. [ Addison ]
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity! [ Jane Porter ]
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. [ J. F. Boyes ]
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies. [ Charles Sumner ]
Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe. What power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity! [ George D. Prentice ]
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]
What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle - oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! [ Beecher ]
Discouragement is a passion, the most dangerous of all: it takes from us all our arms, all our forces, and abandons us without pity to the snares of voluptuousness. [ Alfred Mercier ]
Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was. [ William Shakespeare ]
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. [ Mark Twain's last words, written on a note by his death bed ]
Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. [ Schiller ]
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]
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. [ Goldsmith ]
A woman who is guided by the head, and not by the heart, is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex. [ Balzac ]
If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]
I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! [ Carlyle ]
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]