Janet Evanovich Quotes

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

In no great religious movement has philanthropy been very strong, or rather sentiment or pity---The consciousness of sin has been too strong.

Pity is treason

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

How much good do you suppose condescending charity does?

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

I don't feel like it's fair to the other players and I don't think it's the right way to do business to allow influence and position to dictate when you play a young man.

I'm not fond of kicking a man when he's down.

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.