Quotes About Dignity

But that woman is a fool indeed who, while insulted by accusation, can be worked on by compliments.

You might not see one in a hundred with gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley.

Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her.

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.

She knows her own worth too well for false shame.

And Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims to theirs, but her sense of personal respect to her father prevented her. She made no reply. She left it to himself to recollect, that Mrs Smith was not the only widow in Bath between thirty and forty, with little to live on, and no surname of dignity.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Dia mesti mencamkan bahwa tak seorang pun berhak dinilai atau dihakimi berdasarkan korespondensi pribadinya.

eu intotdeauna merit cel mai bun tratament, pentru ca altceva nu accept.

Creo [...] que todo hombre debe trabajar en alguna cosa. El dinero en sí no tiene importancia ni finalidad algunas; lo importante es emplear dignamente el tiempo.

The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur

young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; ...it is a paltry device, a very mean art.

neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts in a way not to be borne.

Bu kadar kolay anla??lmak korkar?m ac?nacak ÅŸey.' - 'Bunun bir kural? yok. Derin, karma??k bir karakter illa sizinkinden daha çok ya da daha az sayg?n olacak demek deÄŸil.

Merito sempre il miglior trattamento perché non ne tollero altri.

Woolf turned her back on a number of tokens of her rising eminence in the 1930s, including an offer of the Companion of Honour award, an invitation from Cambridge University to give the Clark lectures, and honorary doctorate degrees from Manchester University and Liverpool University. 'It is an utterly corrupt society,' she wrote in her diary, '. . . & I will take nothing that it can give me

Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.

You can't make another person treat you with respect, but you can treat yourself with respect. Walking away is treating yourself with respect—and

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

Grandma has some things in common with the Queen of England. They have the same hairstyle, they each carry their purse in the crook of their arm, and no one tells either of them what to do. Grandma

Only peons made excuses for themselves, she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.