Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]"
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Pity
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J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation."
Mary Oliver
Poet
"When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."
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"I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning."
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"Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?"
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"Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
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"Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me."
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"As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat."
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"Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we."
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"Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life."
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"Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!"
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"Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release."
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"In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice."
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"Pity makes suffering contagious."
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"But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise"
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"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."
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"It's a pity youth is wasted on the young."
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"Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone."
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"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
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"I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child."
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"Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art."
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"No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect."
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"What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest."
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