Quotes About Dignity

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

All men & women are created equal

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.