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“a fundamental quality in the female tradition . . . The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“To keep dignity, and give honor where it’s due, so that defeat is not disgrace.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“I don't like trick horses. It takes all the—dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.” John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“But all this business about kings and lords, it’s against basic human dignity. We’re all born equal. It makes me sick.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“The besom of reform has swept him out of office; and a worthier successor wears his dignity, and pockets his emoluments.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others.” Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
“It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“What I most loved after you, Mercedes, was myself, my dignity, and that strength which rendered me superior to other men; that strength was my life.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I would always rather be happy than dignified” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“all that men are willing to die for, beyond self-interest, tends more or less obscurely to justify that fate by giving it a foundation in dignity: Christianity for the slave, the nation for the citizen, Communism for the worker.” André Malraux, Man's Fate

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