A Quote by William Shakespeare

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

William Shakespeare

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Gate Iron Pity Soft

Quote Author

William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Edwin Arnold

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

Barnabe Rich

Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate

R. D. Laing

Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Edwin Arnold

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

Jane Austen

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

Julia Cameron

Time can make soft that iron wood.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

Graham Swift

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

Frances Harper

I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.

Allen Ginsberg

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

Thomas Southerne

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

Catherynne M. Valente

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.