Sympathetic

Famous quotes containing the word sympathetic:

“Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

“A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices, but not from their vices.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)