Quotes About Dignity

Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Why should we have to disappear just because men are animals?

It was his manner - the warmth of him, like steam rising from tea. One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Si dovrebbe morire orgogliosamente quando non è più possibile vivere orgogliosamente.

No. Lo único que me queda es la muerte. Uno debería morir con dignidad, cuando ya no es posible vivir con dignidad.

Come on, their problem isn't that they're human. It's that they're subhuman." "True

There are no poor men. Not even among the wretches

But she was such a fighter. She refused to mope and lose her dignity. And she did this by returning to what she knew best. By getting better at it.

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

'Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

It is a dire calamity to have a slave; it is an expiable curse to be one.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh and I eat well, and I grow strong. Tomorrow I'll sit in the table when company comes, nobody will dare say to me "eat in the kitchen" then. Besides they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed.

I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Commoners' bones may have been dug up again and slung into a charnel house: for royalty, burial was for ever.

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky

Does this smack of magic to you? Because allow me to inform you, my handsome young prince, that this be not enchantment – it be work!" With that I hurled my slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.) Marshalling what little dignity I yet possessed, I stomped down the corridor – challenging indeed with one shoe – and around the corner.