Pity quotes

“That's all the sympathy I'll give you. Pity's a commodity in here. You buy it and sell it just like anything else.”

Mickey Shaughnessy - Hunk Houghton

“- Maney Gault: You came all the way up to the house, what changed your mind?
- Frank Hamer: I don't know, maybe seeing you move like you're 85.
- Maney Gault: Well, that honest. Maybe a little too honest.”
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer

“Pity is worse than a fist to the face.”
Djimon Hounsou - Duke

“You have such a gift for life, Lucilla. But I think you ask too much of it. Learn to pity. Learn to have compassion. For yourself, too. Pity and compassion for yourself.”
Alec Guinness - Marcus Aurelius

- Pina: Doesn't Christ see us?
- Don Pietro Pellegrini: So many people ask me that: "Doesn't Christ see us?" But are we sure we haven't deserved this scourge? Are we sure we've always lived according to the Lord's laws? People never think of changing their ways, but when the piper must be paid, they despair and ask, "Doesn't the Lord see us?... (continue)(continue reading)
Anna Magnani - Pina
Aldo Fabrizi - Don Pietro Pellegrini

“- Erin Glass: I have a sickness.
- Terrence 'Terry' Glass: Yeah, it's called self-pity. Complicated by having no backbone.”
Diane Lane - Erin Glass
Stellan Skarsgård - Terrence 'Terry' Glass

“- Casey Bugge: He poked me in the eye!
- Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr.: Captain Insano shows no mercy.”
Al Whiting - Casey Bugge
Adam Sandler - Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr.

“I didn't invite you. My wife did. Beth practically forced me to call you. She feels sorry for you. We all do, Mavis. It's obvious you're having some mental sickness, some depression. You're very lonely and confused. So Beth made me invite you here even though I knew it was a mistake. I knew it.”

Patrick Wilson - Buddy Slade

“- James Hurley: You always hurt the ones you love.
- Laura Palmer: You mean the ones you pity.”
James Marshall - James Hurley
Sheryl Lee - Laura Palmer

“There's a long list of things I don't care for: doctors, sunburn, mosquitoes, people who outstay their welcome... I could go on forever. But there is one thing I cannot bear, and that's self-pity. It destroys everything around it. Now don't be that idiot. Don't let that happen.”
Maggie Smith - Muriel Donnelly

“- Joel Glicker: Wednesday, do you think that maybe someday you might want to get married and have kids?
- Wednesday Addams: No.
- Joel Glicker: But what if you met the right man, who worshiped and adored you? Who'd do anything for you? Who'd be your devoted slave? Then what would you do?
- Wednesday Addams: I'd pity him.”
David Krumholtz - Joel Glicker
Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams

“I feel bad for people who count calories. It's no way to live!”
Jack Black - Hal

“If there's anything I hate worse than pity, it's fake pity.”
Emily Watson - Reba McClane

“- Jennifer Lyons: Poor daddy!
- Matthew Hollis: Oh, yours or Nicole's?
- Jennifer Lyons: Mine.
- Matthew Hollis: Oh, that poor daddy. You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a poor daddy.”
Michelle Johnson - Jennifer Lyons
Sir Michael Caine - Matthew Hollis

“Stand up everybody, there's no time for sitting aroung feeling sorry for ourselves.”
Cady Huffman - Joanna

“One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“- Ducard: When you lived among the criminals, did you start to pity them?
- Bruce Wayne: The first time I stole so that I wouldn't starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.”
Liam Neeson - Ducard
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“- Liu Kang: All those souls and you still don't have one of your own. I pity you sorcerer.
- Shang Tsung: Save your pity for the weak!”
Robin Shou - Liu Kang
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Shang Tsung

“- Ben: Oh no, come on!
- Andie: You think maybe he thinks the felt is grass?”

Matthew McConaughey - Ben Barry
Kate Hudson - Andie Anderson

“- Grace Fielding: Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Bellows. I didn't recognize you in this bad light.
- S.B. Bellows: Ah, everybody seems to see me in a bad light.”
Grace Bradley - Grace Fielding
W.C. Fields - S. B. Bellows

“- Rudy: Do you like her?
- Tripper: I feel sorry for her, you know. She's got a glass eye. And, uh, I'm one of the few people who knows exactly which eye to look at when they're talking to her, so she's sort of fixated on me.”

Chris Makepeace - Rudy
Bill Murray - Tripper

“Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God, give me courage to show you you are not alone!”

Emmy Rossum - Christine

“- Flash Gordon: The game's lost, Ming! Stop your attack on Earth and I'll spare your life!
- The Emperor Ming: You pitiful fool! My life is not for any Earthling to give or take!”
Sam J. Jones - Flash Gordon
Max von Sydow - The Emperor Ming

“- Security #2: Don't hurt us, lady. Our take-home's less than three-hundred.
- Catwoman: You're overpaid. Hit the road.”
Biff Yeager - Security #2
Michelle Pfeiffer - Catwoman

“- Frodo: Because of Gollum! Oh, Gandalf... what am I to do? What a pity that Bilbo didn't kill that vile creature when he had the chance.
- Gandalf: Yes, it was pity. Pity and mercy.”
Christopher Guard - Frodo
William Squire - Gandalf