It was pity that stayed his hand...
I do not feel any pity for Gollum. He deserves death.
Deserves death? I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life.
Frodo, musing on Gollum, from the splendid pen of JRR Tolkien, in The Two Towers, the second book of The Lord of the Rings.
Rico says he remembers the line from Bored of the Rings, of course:
Pity stayed his hand...
It's a pity I've run out of bullets, he said.
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