Charles Portis Quotes

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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

Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

I'm not the type of dude who kicks somebody when they're down.

Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

I feel for the players.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

Pity is treason

When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.