Pitifully Quotes

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. - William Somerset Maugham

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. - Eric Liu

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. - Paul Getty

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. - Justin Kaplan

I don't think there is a tremendous future for large numbers of news channels in Britain. It's moving so fast to the web, and their numbers - all the news channels - are so pitifully small. Increasingly, if there's a major news development you are going to the web first to find out what's happening there and then. - Jon Snow