Quotes About Dignity

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

One of the best springs of generous and worthy actions, is having generous and worthy thoughts of ourselves: whoever has a mean opinion of the dignity of his nature will act in no higher a rank than he has allotted himself in his own estimation.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Whoe'er is brave and virtuous, is a Roman.

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

All the Sacraments, as acts of their invis ible author and chief minister, Jesus Christ, by vir tue of their immanent dignity, move God to the (physical) production of grace, and hence exert at least a moral causality.

Sometimes the district captain swung his cane slightly; it hinted at an exuberance that knows where to stop.

He wore a gleaming top hat. He had a pomaded, uptwirled black moustache. He looked like a first-class funeral.

affects you, and the way you're treated." Nightheart stared at her. It might mean something to other cats, but he wanted to be respected for being himself.

We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner.

The whole structure of the law has to be a dignified, imposing edifice and built on firm foundations, if it is going to stand. Whenever you violate the law, you are tearing down a part of that structure, regardless of what goal you may want to achieve.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

My master jecked up my dress and gived my mistress the whip and told her to teach me a lesson. Every time she hit me she asked me what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown. She hit me again: what I said my name was. I said Jane Brown.

good by mr wigin tell them im strong tell them im a man good by mr wigin im gon ax paul if he can bring you this sincely jefferson

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

It is in a case like this that a doctor knows he is powerless in such circumstances, that he longs for change; a change which would prevent the injustice of a system in which until a month ago this poor old woman had had to earn her living as a waitress, wheezing and panting but facing life with dignity.

Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the violation of human dignity and liberty for all eternity.

If, to win, we have to set up the gallows in the public square, I would prefer to lose.