Being Dignified Quotes

#1. The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.

Robyn Carr

#2. So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

Kanye West

#3. But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

Francis Bacon

#4. I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

Neil Gaiman

#5. There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.

Jill Soloway

#6. We are synonyms but not the same.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Rumi

#8. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.

William Shakespeare

#9. I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.'

Kelly Macdonald

#10. She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#11. I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

Mos Def

#12. We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

David Ben-Gurion

#13. I am not a good pleader', he said; 'being too infernal conscious of my own dignity. The dignified fool, Demelza, gets nowhere beside the suave flattering rogue.

Winston Graham

#14. That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting. It was evidently a term of reproach."

-Sherlock Holmes-

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings ...

H.L. Mencken

#16. He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

Allen Iverson

#17. Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Kahlil Gibran

#18. When did you last have fun being dignified?

Kate Reardon

#19. My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

Jack Reynor

#20. There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Helen Reddy

#21. Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

John Cleese

#22. This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You

Alastair Reynolds

#23. A high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.; the state or feeling of being proud; a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one's position or

L. Velez

#24. I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

Virginia Woolf

#25. Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

Charles Rosin