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Quotes About Dignity

The lady of situations.
~ T.S. Eliot
I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me.
~ Tad Williams
You show her respect. That is a good thing," he said. "Too often it is that men think those who serve are doing it from inferiorness or weakness.
~ Tad Williams
Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Your Royal Majesty.
~ Ted Bell
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
~ Tennessee Williams
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
~ Tennessee Williams
A lady must have her own private reserve of secrets and strength
~ Julia Quinn
It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being "pre-op" or "post-op" when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either "circumcised" or "uncircumcised.
~ Julia Serano
I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.
~ Julia Serano
Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my time but is my experience that when grief is becoming it is also suspect. Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.
~ Julian Fellowes
Kindly and firmly, she refused to sleep with me. Not even a charity fuck.
~ Julian May
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
~ Julie Andrews
Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a bonnet.' Mr. Postlethwaite was silent. And then his eyes crept toward the marquess's hairline. 'It will be a gift for a woman, Mr. Postlethwaite.' 'Of course, sir.' The marquess wished the 'of course' sounded a bit more sincere. He'd scarcely been in the shop for more than three minutes and already his dignity was fraying.
~ Julie Anne Long
Mister..." "Wrexion." Chase supplied with great dignity. "Mr.Hugh G. Wrexion.
~ Julie Anne Long
And it's more. It's about getting past that question of whats wrong with me, to knowing there's nothing wrong, that you were born this way. You're a normal person and a beautiful person and you should be proud of who you are. You deserve to live and live with dignity and show people your pride.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Aku tak pernah membela diriku. Tidak sekali pun. Aku tak pernah berkata, "Maaf? Apa yang memberimu hak untuk menghina dan merendahkanku?" Aku membiarkan mereka mencuri martabatku.
~ Julie Anne Peters
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
~ Julie Burchill
Forse la più grande consolazione degli oppressi è quella di sentirsi superiori ai loro tiranni.»
~ Julien Green
El derecho de vivir, no se mendiga, ¡se toma!
~ Julio Cortazar
si hay alguna cosa que defiendo por mí mismo, por la escritura, por la literatura, por todos los escritores y por todos los lectores, es la soberana libertad de un escritor de escribir lo que su conciencia y su dignidad personal lo llevan a escribir.
~ Julio Cortazar
As in a mirror, he 'looks at himself again and again before performing an action; he looks at himself again and again before saying a word; he looks at himself again and again before harboring a thought.' It can easily be seen that by following such a path a man naturally transforms himself into a kind of living statue made up of awareness, into a figure pervaded by composedness, decorum, and dignity . . .
~ Julius Evola
An Aryan [noble] mind has too much respect for other people, and its sense of its own dignity is too pronounced to allow it to impose its own ideas upon others, even when it knows that its ideas are correct.
~ Julius Evola