8 Movie Quotes about Dignity (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about dignity, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 There are more important things than comfort: self-respect.

Burl Ives as Sam The Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

2 Now, we're not gonna do it, doggone it. It's degrading. It's undignified. -Well, so is an empty stomach.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor; Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

3 Woman, I still have some pride. A man should be allowed his human dignity.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

4 Look at him. No dignity, no manners. Yet in the realm of Earth, men like him can amass great wealth and almost godlike power.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat (1995)

5 Ancestors, I honor you, and will try to live with the dignity you have taught me.

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000)

6 Life can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar. Let us try to keep it beautiful and dignified.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

7 Bravery. Integrity. Grace under pressure. And above all, dignity.

John C. Reilly as Wreck It Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph

8 I accepted exile, not disgrace.

Richard Burton as Alexander The Great in Alexander the Great (1956)