Tis Pity Quotes

#1. A tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister's desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending with sorcery. I should think it might be received very well. I believe I shall call it, ' Tis Pity She's a Corpse.

Susanna Clarke

#2. These are the lords
That have bought titles: men may merchandise
Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
It cuts off all desert.

Eliza Haywood

#3. That he's mad, 'tis true,
'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true
- a foolish figure,

William Shakespeare

#4. She dreams of him that has forgot her love;
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
'Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

William Shakespeare

#5. Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Jasper Johns

#6. Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#7. 'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Mary Astell

#8. Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Terry Pratchett

#10. When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Moby

#11. I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.'
'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish?

John Green

#12. What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

Philip Massinger

#13. It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Laurence Sterne

#14. Life is the courier of the universal brilliance. Elysse

Elysse Poetis

#15. No, I don't have a ring, but I have my heart and it's all yours.

Maggy Mae