Quotes About Sympathy

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

I ask not now a lover's smile-- These eyes are sunk and dim; But in their ruin, they possess An eloquence for him; Though others pass me--from his heart More sympathy I claim; When I am gone--perchance he'll weep Whene'er he hears my name.