DIGNITY QUOTES

quotations about dignity

Dignity quote

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

CHARLES DICKENS

Oliver Twist


It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

JOHN GREEN

The Fault in Our Stars


Dignity is appreciated by dignity, the pot of dried fish is known to the dog.

TAMIL PROVERB


Place confers no dignity upon some men; like a balloon, the higher they rise the smaller they look.

G. D. PRENTICE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Dignity is like a perfume; those who use perfumes are scarcely conscious of them.

QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN

Christina of Sweden: A Psychological Biography


The maintenance of the just mean, the knowledge of how far we may indulge our inclination to pleasure without a sacrifice of human dignity, is clearly not the result of easy drifting but calls for an exercise of judgment and an effort of the will.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne


Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long


One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

MICHAEL J. FOX

attributed, Bullies, Revised: From the Playground to the Boardroom


By indignities men come to dignities.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Great Place"


If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Blindness


I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

ARTHUR MILLER

"Tragedy and the Common Man"


No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Up From Slavery


Let none presume
To wear an undeserved dignity.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merchant of Venice


Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE

Literature and Life


Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

FAUSTO CERCIGNANI

FAUSTO CERCIGNANI, Quotes We Cherish


Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

ARISTOTLE

attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts


Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty?

CICERO

Ad Atticum


Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

introduction, The Ethics of Spinoza


Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

attributed, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time