#dignity

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time. ↗

— Katie Couric

#certain #dignity #everything #good #good manners

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. ↗

— Max Frisch

#doomed #final #man #refuge

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cheerful #dignity #effect #either #epochs

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat. ↗

— George Grossmith

#dignity #foot #i #left #mat

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#cause #dignity #i #little #name

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. ↗

— Ellen Key

#education #give #liberal #liberal education #skill

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#funny #man #only #therefore

There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer. The wisdom of her love for him, as love, sustained her dignity; she seemed to be wearing a crown. The compassion of his love for her, as she saw it, made her lift up her heart to him in devotion. He would sometimes catch her large, worshipful eyes, that had no bottom to them looking at him from their depths, as if she saw something immortal before her. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dignity #love #beauty

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ↗

— Aristotle

#honor