Every man has his dignity. Im willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. – Denis Diderot
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. – E. M. Forster
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. – Elbert Hubbard
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. – Washington Irving
Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny. – Ronald Knox
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. – Philip Massinger
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. – Robert Maynard
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
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. – George Santayana
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. – George Santayana
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. – James Thurber
