Honore de Balzac Quotes

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

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

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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

I would say I have compassion.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.