- Pity is sworn servant unto love:
- And this be sure, wherever it begin
- To make the way, it lets your master in.
SAMUEL DANIEL, The Queen's Arcadia
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
WILLA CATHER, "On the Divide," The Troll Garden
Pity is often an eloquent advocate.
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.
CHARLES DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
He best can pity who has felt the woe.
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
- Pity the laden one; this wandering woe
- May visit you and me.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
Pity in its embrace strangles respect.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
Pity is always twinged with disgust.
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Pity and love are nearly allied.
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