Quotes About Dignity

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

People who have made their name in this film industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the government tells such people not to use this kind of language.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Respect me at all means. No halfway disrespect.

Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.

No person should ever be a doormat. Love says, "I love you too much to let you treat me this way. It is not good for you or me.

It matters how you treat all people because all people matter. — Brenda Black —

A gentle hug for older folks—and anyone else—makes them feel like the treasures they are. — Dianna Brumfield —

Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't.

Pierre-Jean Jouve writes: poetry is a soul inaugurating form. The soul inaugurates. Here it is the supreme power. It is human dignity. Even if the form was already well-known, previously discovered, carved from commonplaces, before the interior poetic light was turned upon it, it was a mere object for the mind. But the soul comes and inaugurates the form, dwells in it, takes pleasure in it.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

M. Richard bowed ... to nobody; bent his back ... before nobody; and walked backward ... before nobody ... And, a few steps behind him, M. Moncharmin did the same thing

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras en las que se sufre demasiada humillación cuando se es compadecido.

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras por las que se sufre demasiada humillación al ser compadecido

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses.

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...