Degree Style Dignity

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

    Wonderful “Force of Public Opinion!” We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise the sum of money, the degree of “influence” it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    Style is the man himself.
    [Le style c’est l’homme même.]
    Leclerc, George-Louis Buffon, Comte De (1707–1788)

    It’s immoral to steal, but you can take things.
    The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)