Quotes About Compassion

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,That sees into the bottom of my grief?

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,But to support him after.

My friends were poor, but honest.

Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.

Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?

O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;Thou art the ruins of the noblest manThat ever lived in the tide of times.

But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

O! you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

Such an injury would vex a very saint.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,Become them with one half so good a graceAs mercy does.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

She's still your mother." Meaning no matter what she's done, how much you don't understand her, you will treat her with respect. She's still your mother.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.