What is pity but the vice of kindness.
Emil Cioran
All pity is self-pity.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Terror in the house does roar, But Pity stands before the door.
William Blake
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
Charlton