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Letter "D" » dignify
«For I respectfully declineTo dignify the Serpentine,And make hors-d'oeuvres for fishes.»
Author: Austin Dobson
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
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«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»
«Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name»
«Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.»
Author: Love Actually
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«If it were a person, it would be a woman, a very dignified old lady. She is beautiful. She is royal. She has kept her charms.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Griffith
| About:
Editors
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«Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
backscratcher, dignified, dignifies, dignify, invent
«The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
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«From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,The place is dignified by the doer's deed.»
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