Quotes About Dignity

In time, I was able to learn that as long as I could respect and love myself, I wouldn't settle for less from others.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

The right to challenge a man's judgment carries with it no automatic right to question his honor.

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

The girls head went high. There could be but one suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton, she said icily, and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it. She turned quickly and entered the cabin.

An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

In private life she was not in the least what her calumniators would have wished her to be. She was very quiet, had a great natural dignity, and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of a duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites. Looking about him, he honoured his own past, and mourned for it. After all, there was good in the old ways.

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to—to offensive insinuations—'' She

Massacre, torture, hanging! These are your rights of men!

The contumelies of tyranny are the worst parts of it.

Too idle to work, too proud to beg, the mercenaries were accustomed to a life of rapine: they could rob with more dignity and effect under a banner and a chief; and the sovereign, to whom their service was useless, and their presence importunate, endeavored to discharge the torrent on some neighboring countries.

The prospect of gain will urge a rich and gouty senator as far as Spoleto; every sentiment of arrogance and dignity is subdued by the hopes of an inheritance, or even of a legacy; and a wealthy childless citizen is the most powerful of the Romans.

The same language, even in the camp of the Huns, was used by his ambassador Apollonius, whose bold refusal to deliver the presents, till he had been admitted to a personal interview, displayed a sense of dignity, and a contempt of danger, which Attila was not prepared to expect from the degenerate Romans.

The free men in Manchester knew the tenuousness of their lives and always endeavored to be upstanding; they knew they were slaves with just another title.

It ain't right, Celeste said. It just ain't right to go and do what they bought you for. Why make it easy?

He thought of one of the guiding mottoes of his father's life: 'Never apologize, never explain.

In Hom. 3, p. 30, he exaggerates the grievousness of sin in a priest, and has these remarkable words, "I do not believe that many priests are saved; but that far the greater number are lost: for this dignity requires a great soul and much courage.

As no one can adventure nearer the throne of God by virtue of his rank, his wealth, or his talent, so no one is kept farther from that throne by his low condition, or by his poverty of wealth, of learning, or of intellect. The prince and the sage are not more welcome to heaven than the poor and ignorant.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.