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Pity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 166.
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.— WORDSWORTH — Presentiments.
Why should not grave Philosophy be styled, Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock, A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?— WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. III.
Of all the paths that lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Knight of Malta. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 73.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.— CAMPBELL — Gertrude of Wyoming. Pt. I. St. 24.
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.— BARRY CORNWALL — The Florentine
Party. For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. S.— DRYDEN — Alexander's Feast. L. 96.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Mill on the Floss. Bk. VII. Ch. I.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. и.— GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. L. 161.
Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them.— GOLDSMITH — The Hermit. St. 6.
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. THOS. Moss-The Beggar. At length some pity warm'd the master's breast ('Twas then, his threshold first receiv'd a guest), Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair.— PARNELL — The Hermit. L. 97.
O God, show compassion on the wicked. The virtuous have already been blessed by speeches of their own composition, or that of Thee in being virtuous. Prayer of a Persian Dervish. But, I perceive, Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 2. L.92.
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?— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 200.
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 198.
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks; O, if thine eye be not a flatterer, Come thou on my side, and entreat for me, As you would beg, were you in my distress: A begging prince what beggar pities not?— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 270.
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds, My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 41.
Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 8.
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 66.
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast Where love has been received a welcome guest.— R. B. SHERIDAN — The Duenna. Act II. Sc. 3. Last trio.
Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.— THOS. SOUTHERNE — Oroonoko. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 64.