Quotes About Dignity

If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

I have lived to be above that sort of thing.

Poverty is no sin.

What have been called "women's issues" are freedom issues. Body control. The right of human beings to control their own bodies is a freedom issue. Respect. The right of human beings to be treated institutionally with respect as a human being is a freedom issue.

Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off. "Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I'd never seen him with his breeches down, chasing after some big Afghan bint.

Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in a tramp's clothes it is very difficult, at any rate for the first day, not to feel that you are genuinely degraded.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Then they died. But they died as men who have finished their work and lie down quietly, secure in their honor.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

You know I've always considered women to be people.

They're both bungholes who think they're too noble to shit,

Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the steel struck the flint, such men were rare as dragon's teeth; elsewise the world would not have been so full of slaves. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

Is he blind, or merely stupid?" "He is honorable. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing.

Better a beggar than a thief.

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Slavery is not the same as rain," she insisted. "I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.

He may not look as tall or strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them." - Lysa

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

The Lord of Casterly Rock made such an impressive figure that it was a shock when his destrier dropped a load of dung right at the base of the throne.

There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.

Would you throw your life away for pride?