Quotes about Dignity
A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.
— John Goldingay
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
— John F. Kennedy
His astonishing constancy during these trials, and serenity of countenance while under such excruciating torments, gave the spectators so exalted an idea of the dignity and truth of the christian religion, that many became converts upon the occasion,
— John Foxe
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
— George Bernard Shaw
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.
— George Bernard Shaw
A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...
— George Bernard Shaw
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
— George Bernard Shaw
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
— George Bernard Shaw
Tulajdonképpen nem abban van a különbség, hogy az ember hogy viselkedik, hanem hogy az emberrel hogyan viselkednek. Én Higgins professzor úr számára mindig csak egy virágoslány maradok, mert Ã…' mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy virágoslánnyal. De maga elÃ…'tt úrinÃ…' lehetek, mert maga mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy úrinÃ…'vel.
— George Bernard Shaw
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
— George Eliot
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
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
— Phillips Brooks