Quotes About Compassion

Samuel Johnson once remarked that it was surprising to find how much more kindness than justice society contained.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

A man who had felt less, might.

Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.

No soy hombre de muchas palabras, Emma. Si te amara menos, sería capaz de hablar más de ello. Pero sabes como soy. De mí no escucharás más que verdades. Te he hecho reproches y te he reprendido y lo has soportado como ninguna otra mujer en toda Inglaterra lo hubiera hecho. Soporta todas las verdades que ahora te voy a decir, mi queridísima Emma, tan bien como soportaste aquellas

I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common.