Quotes About Dignity

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish." A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

was odd that the French were so dignified in death but in life acted like shits squealing on each other.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

Gen. Robert E. Lee was present, and, ignoring the action and presence of the negro, arose in his usual dignified and self-possessed manner, walked up the aisle to the chancel rail, and reverently knelt down to partake of the communion, and not far from the negro.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

She's the ornament of her sex.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes.

Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly believed, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another customer in.

Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same, speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

O! there are many kinds of pride," said Biddy, looking full at me and shaking her head; "pride is not all of one kind—

his face thrown up to the sky, and his head hanging down; then recovered himself, fumbled with his cap, and made a bow.

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.

Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire;

I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.

All of which is here recorded to the honour of that good Christian pair, representatives of hundreds of other good Christian pairs as conscientious and as useful, who merge the smallness of their work in its greatness, and feel in no danger of losing dignity when they adapt themselves to incomprehensible humbugs.

I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him. The fashion of his dress could no more come in its way when he spoke these words, that it could come in its way in Heaven. He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out. As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets; but he was gone.