Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Pity and friendship are passions incompatible with each other. Goldsmith.

Pity and need make all flesh kin. There is no 50 caste in blood / Which runneth of one hue; nor caste in tears, which trickle salt with all. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Pity him who has his choice, and chooses the worse. Gael. Pr.

Pity is a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. Colton.

Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. Hobbes.

Pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

Pity makes the world / Soft to the weak and 55 noble for the strong. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Pity only with new objects stays, / But with the tedious sight of woe decays. Dryden.

Pity shapes not into syllogisms; / Nor can affection ape philosophy. Lewis Morris.

Pity, the tenderest part of love. Yalden.