DIGNITY

Related Subjects: Character, Distinction, Greatness, Honor, Nobility, Pride, Rank, Reserve

1. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.—ARISTOTLE
   

2. 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.—C. N. BOVEE
   

3. There is a certain dignity of manners absolutely necessary, to make even the most valuable character either respected or respectable.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

4. Dignity is like a perfume: those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.—QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
   

5. The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.—BEN JONSON, Catiline
   

6. I confess I am a little nervous about the gas-bills which must come
   in, in the course of time . . . but then the dignity of being liable to such things is a very supporting consideration. No man is a Bohemian who has to pay water-rates and a street tax.—SIDNEY LANIER
   

7. Remember this,—that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

8. Dignity and love do not blend well nor do they continue long together.—OVID
   

9. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.—SANTAYANA, Introduction to the Ethics of Spinoza
   

10. It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
    

11. But clay and clay differs in dignity,
    Whose death is both alike.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

12. My cloud of dignity
    Is held from falling with so weak a wind
    That it will quickly drop.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

13. Let none presume
    To wear an undeserved dignity.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

14. 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, Lines Left upon a Seat in a
    Yew Tree