(298 quotes found)
“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction”
Anne Sullivan
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.”
Jerome K. Jerome
“The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly”
Julian Barnes
“It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.”
Paul Eipper
“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.”
Oscar Wilde
“Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.”
J. Russell Lynes
“Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.”
Jennifer Lopez
“The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.”
