Dignity Quotes

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There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
We understand â€¦ that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. — Victor Hugo
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. — Dave Eggers
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the… — Charles Grandison Finney
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity,… — Kurt Vonnegut
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling… — Seth Grahame-Smith
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. — William Penn
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. — Terry Pratchett
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,… — Richard Russo
I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I… — Cassandra Clare
There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer — James Clavell
This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. — Mary Ann Shaffer
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their… — Dalai Lama
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he… — Maya Angelou
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us. — Oprah Winfrey

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