Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Sarah Addison Allen

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

William Cowper

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

William Hazlitt

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

William Davis

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Yann Martel

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Ronda Storms

I may not have dignity in your eyes, but at least I have my integrity.

Jose Saramago

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Kathy Reichs

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Pierre Corneille

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.