Quotes About Compassion

One always has hope for human nature

We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.

With women, love always comes first.

One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune—then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.

The hardest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering. You can do things to aid people's physical disabilities; but you can do little to help the pain of the heart.

I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.

If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. They permit themselves an expression of face that on other occasions they would not allow.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, Mr. Poirot, that there is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless—so sure. So generous and so demanding.

The innocent must not suffer.

She was an expert in the exact amount of condolence which would be acceptable.

I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)

When a man has a charming, gracious, intelligent wife, he's no business to treat her badly.

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you—even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?" Poirot said steadily: "Yes, Mademoiselle. I believe it is the unforgivable offence—to kill.

one of the worst things in the world today, the unkindness of woman to woman.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realise just how much you love them!

You shouldn't shoot people," said Lord Caterham in a tone of mild remonstrance. "You shouldn't really. I daresay some of them richly deserve it—but all the same it will lead to trouble.

You don't stop being in love with anyone because you get old. People like Derek and Deborah think you do. They can't imagine anyone who isn't young being in love.

Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better—who are undeveloped—who are to be pitied rather than blamed.