Dignity Quotes - Page 11

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

To hide feelings when you are near crying Is the secret of dignity.