DIGNITY QUOTES
quotations about dignity
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
CHARLES DICKENS
Oliver Twist
It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
JOHN GREEN
The Fault in Our Stars
Dignity is appreciated by dignity, the pot of dried fish is known to the dog.
TAMIL PROVERB
Place confers no dignity upon some men; like a balloon, the higher they rise the smaller they look.
G. D. PRENTICE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The maintenance of the just mean, the knowledge of how far we may indulge our inclination to pleasure without a sacrifice of human dignity, is clearly not the result of easy drifting but calls for an exercise of judgment and an effort of the will.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use perfumes are scarcely conscious of them.
QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
Christina of Sweden: A Psychological Biography
Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long
By indignities men come to dignities.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Great Place"
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
MICHAEL J. FOX
attributed, Bullies, Revised: From the Playground to the Boardroom
If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Blindness
I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.
ARTHUR MILLER
"Tragedy and the Common Man"
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Up From Slavery
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.
FAUSTO CERCIGNANI
FAUSTO CERCIGNANI, Quotes We Cherish
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE
Literature and Life
Let none presume
To wear an undeserved dignity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty?
CICERO
Ad Atticum
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
ARISTOTLE
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
attributed, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
introduction, The Ethics of Spinoza