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Quotes About Dignity

She is of the north. She deserves better than a butcher.
~ George R.R. Martin
The King's Hand should have a hand," the Hand said "I will not have men speaking of the King's Stump
~ George R.R. Martin
Sólo un tonto se humilla a sí mismo, habiendo tantos hombres en el mundo dispuestos a encargarse de esa tarea
~ George R.R. Martin
Begging for help never gets you any.
~ George R.R. Martin
Better to die a knight than live like that.
~ George R.R. Martin
Jaime's golden hand cracked him across the mouth so hard the other knight went stumbling down the steps. His lantern fell and smashed, and the oil spread out, burning. "You are speaking of a highborn lady, ser. Call her by her name. Call her Brienne.
~ George R.R. Martin
Honor," she said. "The point is honor.
~ George R.R. Martin
I will not suffer to be called a whore!" Why, sister, he never claims Jaime paid you.
~ George R.R. Martin
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword.
~ George R.R. Martin
And if I hear 'Your Grace' once more, I'll have your head on a spike. We are more to each other than that." "I had not forgotten," Ned replied quietly.
~ George R.R. Martin
If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look him in the face and hear his last words,
~ George R.R. Martin
My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his wroth, not the one between his legs. - Arianne
~ George R.R. Martin
Better to live shamed than die proud.
~ George R.R. Martin
Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
~ George Santayana
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
~ George Santayana
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
~ George Santayana
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
~ George Santayana
All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.
~ George Santayana
At five, I had the intuitive, instinctive faith that my cosmos, my family and the world were good and true and beautiful. That somehow I had always been and always would be. And I knew in a way of a five-year-old that I had worth and dignity and individuality. Later, when I read Nietzsche's statement that these are not given to us by nature but are tasks that we must somehow solve, I knew him to be wrong. We all had them once. We
~ George Sheehan
Power and honour don't share the same bed,
~ George Shipway
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
~ George Washington
If we must perish in the fight, Oh! let us die like men.
~ George Washington Patten
Once you take care of people, people respect you.
~ George Weah