Anachronism Quote by Ellen Glasgow Download Open image “Dignity is an anachronism.” — Ellen Glasgow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anachronism Dignity Respect
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Dignity is not demanded, it is earned with good manners & discipline life. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Dignity is a quiet strength which reflects your deep honor and self-respect. It is a gracious pride without narcissistic projection and portrays a calm… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability.… — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
