It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought. " This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books
Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.
You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
Men are always much more dignified than most women.
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
We need a united front against Islamic State and Assad happens to be the decisive power that can fight them. But the situation is preposterous because we also have to respect the calls for change. I would be in favor of a dignified change.
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.
