Quotes About Dignity

Mon ami ,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.

Servants must be treated with the utmost courtesy. They are doing skilled work which you could not possibly do yourself without long training. And remember they cannot answer back. You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.

A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing.

A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation

My Great-aunt Jane always used to say that a true lady was neither shocked nor surprised at anything that might happen," I murmured dreamily. "I endeavour to live up to her precepts.

Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military moustache, air of dignity immense!

I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)

When a man has a charming, gracious, intelligent wife, he's no business to treat her badly.

Elephants are quite enough.

From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr Blore and said with immense dignity: 'I'm talking to you, young man. The day of judgment is very close at hand.' Subsiding on to his seat Mr Blore thought to himself: He's nearer the day of judgment than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong…

You do not like anyone less because they have tuberculosis or some other fatal disease.

Never to despise the trivial – the undignified.

I mind my own business and I expect other people to mind theirs. I don't listen to gossip and tittle-tattle.

I remember my dear mother teaching me that a gentlewoman should always be able to control herself in public, however much she may give way in private.

She's just the type—sexually unattractive, innately respectable. In my book, The Barren Vine—" Colonel Race interrupted tactfully:

Poirot drew himself up in an important manner.

What I say is a gentleman's a gentleman even if he does drive a tractor.

Poirot was an extraordinary-looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.

we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep other human being in subjection..." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth

Ceeb maaha inad imtixaan dhacdo, balse waxa ceeb ah ku qanaca caadeysiga dhicitaanka joogtada ah.

Waxaad qiimo iyo sharaf ku lahaan doontaa goobaha shaqada, kolba sida aad u tayeyso xirfada iyo aqoonta aad xanbaarsan tahay.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Daiyu Matsushita was not the sort of policeman who used violence, intimidation, and torture to extract confessions from suspects. He preferred to let reason and systematic detective work do the job. His philosophy reflected the New Constitution of 1946. He tried at all times to show respect for a suspect's human rights, and he would only send a case to the prosecutor if there was direct evidence to back up the accusations.

You should know a weapon doesn't make the man.