We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Marquis de Sade
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Sydney Smith
Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.
David Walliams
I never wanted anyone's pity.
Jake Weber
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
People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'
Joyce Meyer
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