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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

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

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

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.