A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith
Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Lord Chesterfield
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be 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
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
Jerry Lewis
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
John Woolman
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
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