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Quotes About Dignitary

Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
~ Dan Shechtman
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
~ Ambrose Bierce
flinching, Santiago pulled the gun out of the backpack and shot the man in the chest several times. The blood bags under the "dignitary's" shirt erupted, and he dramatically collapsed to the ground. Silver almost immediately appeared on the scene and had Santiago close his eyes. The stuntman made a hasty exit as Silver then brought
~ Joe Dispenza
The vice-presidential carriage arrived, splattering us sternly but justly with mud.
~ Gore Vidal
Hardly unaware of his image, Bradlee even cultivated it. He delighted in displaying his street savvy, telling a reporter to get his ass moving and talk to some real cops, not lieutenants and captains behind a desk; then rising to greet some visiting dignitary from Le Monde or L'Express in formal, flawless French, complete with a peck on each cheek. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
~ Carl Bernstein
So many stories were told about him: that he had held important positions—grand dignitary of the sultan, hydraulic engineer to the diwan, or others like that
~ Italo Calvino