Ease with dignity. [ Cicero ]
The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting. [ Jonson ]
Dignity and love do not blend. [ Mme. Necker ]
Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes. [ Hannah More ]
Bear the inevitable with dignity. [ Streckfuss ]
That last dignity of the wretched. [ Henry Giles ]
There is even the dignity of vice. [ Rivarol ]
Virtue may be gay, yet with dignity. [ Statius ]
Religion gives a dignity to distress. [ James Hervey ]
All our dignity lies in our thoughts. [ Pascal ]
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. [ Young ]
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
Humbleness is always grace, always dignity. [ Lowell ]
Dignity increases more easily than it begins. [ Seneca ]
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love. [ Milton ]
Let none presume to wear an undeserved dignity. [ William Shakespeare ]
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions. [ Fielding ]
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once. [ Joubert ]
As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of man. [ Addison ]
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power. [ George S. Hillard ]
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. [ Alcott ]
Let us be generous of our dignity, as well as of our money. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Clay and clay differs in dignity, whose dust is both alike. [ William Shakespeare ]
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. [ Whipple ]
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in deserving them. [ Aristotle ]
Dignity and pride are of too near relationship for intermarriage. [ Madame Deluzy ]
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. [ J. G. Holland ]
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. [ Ovid ]
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. [ Bruyere ]
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. [ Cicero ]
He seemed for dignity composed and high exploit; but all was false and hollow. [ Milton ]
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. [ Massinger ]
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
True dignity is his whose tranquil mind virtue has raised above the things below. [ Beattie ]
A lie is the abandonment, and, as it were, the annihilation, of the dignity of man. [ Immanuel Kant ]
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character. [ Bovee ]
The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. [ Fuller ]
The Golden Rule Of Three.
Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]
Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks. [ Whipple ]
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. [ Washington Irving ]
She hath a natural, wise sincerity, a simple truthfulness; and these have lent her a dignity as moveless as the centre. [ Lowell ]
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness. [ Bacon ]
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a greater share of dignity than of happiness. [ Bacon ]
He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. [ Cicero ]
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. [ Chesterfield ]
Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity which sustains and finally conquers misfortunes, and the ordeal refines while it chastens. [ Aughey ]
True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still revere himself in lowliness of heart. [ Wordsworth ]
We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jeffersonian vulgarity. [ Bishop Henry C. Potter ]
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it. [ Bovee ]
The word independence
is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word dependence
is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption. [ Bentham ]
A nobleness and elevation of mind, together with firmness of constitution, gives lustre and dignity to the aspect, and makes the soul, as it were, shine through the body. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable. [ Barnes ]
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. [ Moses Harvey ]
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low. [ Swift ]
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. [ J. G. Holland ]
In composing, think much more of your matter than your manner. To be sure, spirit, grace, and dignity of manner are of great importance, both to the speaker and writer; but of infinitely more importance is the weight and worth of matter. [ Wirt ]
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]
Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]