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Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Pierre Corneille

Enemy

Fate

Pity

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

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Old

Pity

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Pity

Worth

Writer

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

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.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

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

Sympathy

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