Degree Style Dignity

Famous quotes containing the words degree, style and/or dignity:

    A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    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)