#pity

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. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#ambition #engage #fear #love #need

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#bigger #drop #got #much #others

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

#disillusionment #having #illusion #moment #moments

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

#comes #destroy #down #everything #head

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#grief #instruments #more #pity #speaks

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

— Pierre Corneille

#fate #how #longer #oh #pity

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. ↗

— Richard Steele

#fool #himself #object #pity #until

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#love #mistake #pity

Reform is born of need, not pity. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#need #pity #reform

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. ↗

— Patty Duke

#monitor #people #self-pity #tell #their