Quotes: Pity

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

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.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

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.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

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

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

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

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!