Evan Esar Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
-
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
-
Silence is my dignity.
-
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
-
I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
-
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
-
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
-
I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
-
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
-
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
-
The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten
-
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.
-
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.
-
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
-
A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.
-
Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.
-
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
-
If once a man has come to the idea of a service which is not purely moral, but is ...... In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.
-
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.
-
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
-
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
-
I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
-
If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
