Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.