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Dignity Quotes - Page 10

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

Henry James (2011). “English Hours: A Portrait of a Country”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

"Quotations for Our Time" edited by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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

George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.230, Рипол Классик

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

Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.74

There is a certain dignity to being French.

"Brigitte Bardot fights plan for Hollywood biopic" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2010.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

William Shakespeare (1861). “Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter”, p.70

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.44, Syracuse University Press