There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
No race can prosper ’til it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the field, as in writing a poem.
—Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American Educationist
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
—Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
—James A. Michener (1907–97) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Historian
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) Italian Dramatist, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Author
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
—James Bryant Conant (1893–1978) American Chemist, Educator
Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.
—Doug Williams qqq
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
—Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626–89) Swedish Monarch
Most of the men of dignity, who awe or bore their more genial brethren, are simply men who possess the art of passing off their insensibility for wisdom, their dullness for depth, and of concealing imbecility of intellect under haughtiness of manner.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–86) American Literary Critic
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
—Philip Massinger (1583–1640) English Playwright
An imposing air should always be taken as an evidence of imposition. — Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
—Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–86) American Literary Critic
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
—Benjamin Whichcote (1609–83) British Anglican Priest, Theologian, Philosopher
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–81) American Editor, Novelist