'I don't admit that a fresh illustration is an explanation,' said I with some asperity. 'Bravo, Watson A very dignified and logical remonstrance.' Dr. Watson, speaking with Sherlock Holmes.
'I don't admit that a fresh illustration is an explanation,' said I with some asperity. 'Bravo, Watson A very dignified and logical remonstrance.' Dr. Watson, speaking with Sherlock Holmes.
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.
I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your community. It is a central human activity. Work, in this view makes you honest with yourself, requires that you develop your faculties and skills, empowers you to do what you are really good at and love to do, connects you in a compassionate way with the outside world, supports the philosophy of non-destructiveness and sustainability, and integrates work with personal life and community.
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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.
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