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Familiar Quotations

Dignities

Alcohol preserves everything except dignity.–Anonymous

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.–Anonymous

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.–Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.–Aristotle

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.–Francis Bacon

Dignity belongs to the conquered.–Kenneth Burke

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.–Antonia S. Byatt

Leisure with dignity.–Cicero

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?–Cicero

Raise your voice, and your dignity is lowered.–Melchor F. Cichon

• Prefaceviii
• Familiar Quotations1
• Dignities1
• Dignities – "Decency"3
• Dignities – "Degree"3
• Dignities – "Distinction"4
• Dignities – "Human"4
• Use in Literature6
• Dignities6
• Dignities – "Acts"20
• Dignities – "Admiration"21
• Dignities – "Air"21
• Dignities – "Answer"23
• Dignities – "Appear"24
• Dignities – "Attitude"25
• Dignities – "Authority"26
• Dignities – "Bearing"27
• Dignities – "Beautiful"27
• Dignities – "Being"28
• Dignities – "Call"30
• Dignities – "Calm"30
• Dignities – "Chair"31
• Dignities – "Character"32
• Dignities – "Chief"33
• Dignities – "Children"34
• Dignities – "Came"34
• Dignities – "Consciousness"35
• Dignities – "Countries"36
• Dignities – "Day"37
• Dignities – "Death"37
• Dignities – "Doubt"38
• Dignities – "Drew"38
• Dignities – "Emperor"39
• Dignities – "Enjoy"39
• Dignities – "Expressed"40
• Dignities – "Eyes"41
• Dignities – "Far"43
• Dignities – "Father"44
• Dignities – "Features"45
• Dignities – "Feels"46
• Dignities – "Few"47
• Dignities – "Figure"48
• Dignities – "Forgets"48
• Dignities – "Form"49
• Dignities – "Found"50
• Dignities – "Full"51
• Dignities – "Girl's"52
• Dignities – "Go"52
• Dignities – "Graceful"53
• Dignities – "Great"54
• Dignities – "Hand"58
• Dignities – "Head"59
• Dignities – "Heart"60
• Dignities – "Herself"60
• Dignities – "Historical"61
• Dignities – "Hopes"62
• Dignities – "House"62
• Dignities – "Ideas"63
• Dignities – "Insult"64
• Dignities – "Justice"64
• Dignities – "Kind"65
• Dignities – "King"66
• Dignities – "Labor"67
• Dignities – "Letter"67
• Dignities – "Life"68
• Dignities – "Line"69
• Dignities – "Little"70
• Dignities – "Live"72
• Dignities – "Looked"73
• Dignities – "Lost"75
• Dignities – "Love"76
• Dignities – "Made"76
• Dignities – "Man"78
• Dignities – "Manners"82
• Dignities – "Means"84
• Dignities – "Moral"84
• Dignities – "Mother"85
• Dignities – "Moved"86
• Dignities – "Naturally"86
• Dignities – "Need"87
• Dignities – "Nobler"88
• Dignities – "Nothing"89
• Dignities – "Number"90
• Dignities – "Occasion"91
• Dignities – "Officers"91
• Dignities – "Old"94
• Dignities – "Once"95
• Dignities – "Order"96
• Dignities – "Others"97
• Dignities – "Passions"98
• Dignities – "People"98
• Dignities – "Person"99
• Dignities – "Place"101
• Dignities – "Pleased"102
• Dignities – "Poor"103
• Dignities – "Position"103
• Dignities – "Possession"104
• Dignities – "Possible"105
• Dignities – "Power"105
• Dignities – "Presence"106
• Dignities – "Presents"107
• Dignities – "Pride"108
• Dignities – "Princesses"109
• Dignities – "Questions"109
• Dignities – "Quiet"110
• Dignities – "Read"111
• Dignities – "Reason"112
• Dignities – "Respect"112
• Dignities – "Returned"113
• Dignities – "Rich"113
• Dignities – "Rise"114
• Dignities – "Rooms"114
• Dignities – "Rose"115
• Dignities – "Sense"116
• Dignities – "Served"118
• Dignities – "Showed"119
• Dignities – "Silent"120
• Dignities – "Simple"120
• Dignities – "Slow"121
• Dignities – "Soon"122
• Dignities – "Spoke"123
• Dignities – "Spirit"124
• Dignities – "Standing"124
• Dignities – "State"126
• Dignities – "Stranger"126
• Dignities – "Struggle"127
• Dignities – "Subjects"127
• Dignities – "Sure"128
• Dignities – "Tall"129
• Dignities – "Things"129
• Dignities – "Thought"130
• Dignities – "Thus"132
• Dignities – "Tone"133
• Dignities – "Touch"134
• Dignities – "Troubled"134
• Dignities – "Understood"135
• Dignities – "Walked"135
• Dignities – "Want"136
• Dignities – "Wealth"136
• Dignities – "Wife"137
• Dignities – "Woman"138
• Dignities – "Words"139
• Dignities – "Work"139
• Dignities – "Worthy"140
• Dignities – "Young"141
• Dignities – "Youth"142
• Nonfiction Usage144
• Bible Usage144
• Journalism Usage144
• Bibliographic Usage144
• Encyclopedic Usage154
• Lexicographic Usage166
• Index194