When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves
An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.
I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
self-pity is better than none.
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.
I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.