A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Arthur Helps

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
Ernst Toller

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

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.
Charles Horton Cooley

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
Mason Cooley

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
James Agate

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
Lionel Blue

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
Ferdinand Mount

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
Teri Garr

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Muriel Spark