#dignity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #dignity




Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper.


George Eliot


#dignity #life

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?


Andrea Dworkin


#domination #love #patriarchy #love

You [Mankind] have been given no particular function. You may give your life whatever form you choose, do whatever you wish … you have no limitations, and can act in accord with your own free will. You alone can choose the limits of your nature.


Pico della Mirandola


#nature

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.


Aberjhani


#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality

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


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #dignity #feelings #hide #literature

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#bear #before #below #century #cheerfully

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.


Steve Martin


#apology #bah #beneath #cowardly #dignity

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.


Philip Massinger


#gained #honors #lost #never #place

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.


Pranab Mukherjee


#dignity #ensure #equal #equal rights #every

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.


Luigi Pirandello


#dignity #each #face #go #heart