"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."

Dignity,

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."

Exlpore more Dignity quotes

"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."

George Grossmith, English Actor

Dignity,

"Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity."

Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor

Dignity, Play, Respect

"Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Dignity, Respect, Behavior, Ethics

"We treated all of the dead with dignity."

Harry Anderson, American Actor

Dignity,

"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Dignity, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom, Truth

"Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity."

Terry Waite, British Author

Dignity, Sincerity

"Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

Dignity, Man, Pride, Self

"Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it."

Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher

Dignity, Office

"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."

Philip Massinger, British Poet

Dignity,

"Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Dignity, Worth, Character, Morality, Humanity

Explore more quotes by Victor Hugo

"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."

Integrity

"The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had."

Hope

"Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within."

Family

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life."

Life

"And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you."

Romance

"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Work

"When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back."

Health

"He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven."

Emotion

"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."

Emotion

"To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation."

Morality