Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyts New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. | | Pity |
| Of all the paths that lead to a womans love Pitys the straightest. Beaumont and FletcherKnight of Malta. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 73. | 1 |
Pity, some say, is the parent of future love. Beaumont and FletcherSpanish Curate. Act V. Sc. 1. | 2 |
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. Barry CornwallFlorentine Party. | 3 |
For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. DrydenAlexanders Feast. L. 96. | 4 |
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. George EliotMill on the Floss. Bk. VII. Ch. I. | 5 |
Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. GoldsmithHermit. St. 6. | 6 |
La plaincte et la commiseration sont meslees à quelque estimation de la chose quon plaind. Pity and commiseration are mixed with some regard for the thing which one pities. MontaigneEssays. Bk. I. Ch. L. | 7 |
At length some pity warmd the masters breast (Twas then, his threshold first receivd a guest), Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair. ParnellThe Hermit. L. 97. | 8 |
O God, show compassion on the wicked. The virtuous have already been blessed by Thee in being virtuous. Prayer of a Persian Dervish. | 9 |
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds, My mildness hath allayd their swelling griefs. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 41. | 10 |
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks; O, if thine eye be not a flatterer, Come thou on my side, and entreat for me, As you would beg, were you in my distress: A begging prince what beggar pities not? Richard III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 270. | 11 |
Tear-falling pity dwells not in his eye. Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 66. | 12 |
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul shall pity me: Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself? Richard III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 200. | 13 |
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 198. | 14 |
But, I perceive, Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience. Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 92. | 15 |
Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 8. | 16 |
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast Where love has been received a welcome guest. R. B. SheridanThe Duenna. Act II. | 17 |
Pitys akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. Thos. SoutherneOroonoko. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 64. | 18 | |
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