61 Undignified Quotes

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Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. — Dave Eggers

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death. — Stonewall Jackson

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle

Human dignity is more precious than prestige. - Claude McKay

Human dignity is more precious than prestige. — Claude McKay

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost — Rubin Carter

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated. — Desmond Tutu

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. — Michael J. Fox

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. — Confucius

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. — G. K. Chesterton

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. — Confucius

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified. - Mahatma Gandhi

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. — Wayne Dyer

Short Undignified Quotes

  • There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. — Bill Cosby
  • There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star. — Tina Turner
  • One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.' — Buzz Aldrin
  • ... can life be made undignified by any act of man? — Phyllis Bottome
  • There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right. — Bing Crosby

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It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book that never stated truthfully the facts of our invasion or the cruelty we had to endure for generations. — Leonard Peltier

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible. — Sayings

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man. — Bear Bryant

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne. — Jeffrey Bernard

Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life. — Jacob M. Appel

When the President of the United States attacks a movie star it is undignified and it casts a poor light on the United States of America. When the President of the United States attacks a sitting judge and questions his legitimacy, that actually can lead to a Constitutional crisis. — Mika Brzezinski

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter. — Cyril Connolly

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. — Ethel Waters

We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us. — Michio Kaku

The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that youll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive. — Embeth Davidtz

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified. — N.K. Jemisin

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified. — Dov Davidoff

Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy. — Jeff Flake

Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified. — Hamilton Morris

In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African American citizens) as well as a dangerous dehumanization of some people (in Palestine, Iraq, Africa or Asia) are simply unacceptable. — Tariq Ramadan

You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy of the judicial decision-making process to have mudslinging by judges, but the way that we hobble people of enormous integrity from defending themselves is, I think, deeply problematic in states where you have an elected judiciary, or a judge is subject to recall. — Deborah Rhode

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates. — Meghan O'Rourke

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified. — Yasser Seirawan

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody. — Isabel Allende

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. — Bertolt Brecht

Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will. — Stanislaw Lem

I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or out of the home. Until this attitude prevails I believe the position of women will be uncertain and undignified, in spite of poetic rhapsodies to the contrary. — Mary Barnett Gilson

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable. — Lord Chesterfield

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end! — William Makepeace Thackeray

People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society. — Pope Francis

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes — M. John Harrison

When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old. — Courtney Love

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk. — Eoin Colfer

Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas. — Gail Carriger

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football. — Ian Mortimer

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