Famous quotes containing the words degree, style and/or dignity:
“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“I believe it was a good job,
Despite this possible horror: that they might prefer the
Preservation of their law in all its sick dignity and their knives
To the continuation of their creed
And their lives.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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