“At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."” SaidNextAcceptingFoodSittingTablesSizeEnormousPityGentlemanHostFactoriesGlancesCastingSausage Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.” IfsMenSaidI CanInterestOne ThingPaintingPity Author:Claude Monet
“When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.” MenWellsSaidStudyStyleDrawsMethodPityPursuePainterVenice Author:Giorgio Vasari
“I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day.” SaidLightAbleDarknessPureAngelBuiltPityMisfortunesTrapsUglinessCastlesScornGloomDoorwaysLamentI Smile Author:Mizuki Nomura