PITY

Related Subjects: Compassion, Consolation, Mercy, Sympathy

1. Him who pitieth suffering men
   Zeus pitieth, and his ways are sweet on earth.—AESCHYLUS, The Eumenides
   

2. Of all the paths (that) lead to a woman's love
   Pity's the straightest.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, The Knight of Malta
   

3. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.—Bible, Proverbs 19:17
   

4. What humanity needs is not the promise of scientific immortality, but compassionate pity in this life and infinite mercy on the Day of Judgment.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Notes on Life and Letters
   

5. Man, man, one cannot live quite without pity.—DOSTOYEVSKY, Crime and Punishment
   

6. For pity melts the mind to love.—DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast
   

7. Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.—JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
   

8. I never saw a wild thing
   Sorry for itself.—D. H. LAWRENCE, Self-Pity
   

9. Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,
   And takes away the use of it, and my sword,
   Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,
   Will not be drawn.—MASSINGER, A New Way to Pay Old Debts
   

10. We may pity, though not pardon thee.—SHAKESPEARE, The Comedy of Errors
    

11. Some of you with Pilate wash your hands
    Showing an outward pity.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II