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A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As
— Mortimer J. Adler
Better to be disliked than pitied.
— Abba Eban
He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.
— Ninotchka Rosca
You're toomuch of a pain in the ass to be pitied. — G.A. Aiken
No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
— Luc De Clapiers
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[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
— Jane Austen
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
— Jane Austen
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.
— Elizabeth Strout
I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet,so I took his shoes. — Dave Barry
You have no knowledge of me. You are to be pitied.''Envied, more like,' said his undutiful son. — Georgette Heyer
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Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!
— Jerry Lewis
While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.
— Gaston Leroux
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!
— Bette Lee Crosby
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
— Benjamin Franklin
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
She pitied everyone who didn't have a sister.
— Carol Anshaw
How much to be pitied is he, who has no pity!
— Publilius Syrus
I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten.
— Charles Dickens
Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Perhaps she would become one of those women, pitied or envied, who chose not to have children.
— Ian McEwan
It is very difficult for a man to differentiate between empathy and sympathy. He hates to be pitied.
— John Gray
Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
— Binyavanga Wainaina
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
— Christopher Marlowe
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is better to be envied than pitied.
— Herodotus
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
— Rockwell Kent
I'd never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied.
— Paula Hawkins
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
— Oliver Goldsmith
He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.
— Jeffrey Toobin
Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.
— Bette Lee Crosby
It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.
— Teju Cole
The coward is an object to be pitied.
— Swami Vivekananda
The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.
— Arthur Miller
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
— Alberto Moravia
She who does not complain is never pitied. - Jane Austen
— Madeline Brock
Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless.
— Kate Morton
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope