When people set about an infringement of the Decalogue they owe it to their self-respect to treat with Heaven as a formidable antagonist.

He could not see in the brutal faces before him one spark of intelligence, one little gleam of independence and self-respect which could be attributed to his endeavor; which the most sanguine construction could take as resulting from his time and money given to a hopeless cause.

and until we have wrung our self-respect from unwilling hands and from unwilling pens there can be no co-operation.

His life was very simple and inexpensive, thus enabling him to maintain that independence so essential to self-respect.

But, above all, she hates to recollect That she had taken to Rinaldo so; She thinks it the last want of self-respect, Pure degradation, to have look'd so low.

Hilda's self-respect seemed to have a physical body and Louisa to be hacking at it with a jagged knife.

It might be that she would thus regain a strong shade of lost self-respect.

She had seemed to me to bear herself with a maidenly self-respect that spoke of no little grace of breeding.

Treated with infamy for long years, they are apt to deem themselves worthy of infamyto lose that self-respect which is the invariable concomitant of religious feeling, and which, apart from religious feeling, is the sole preventive of personal degradation.

No man without a very high sense of justice and self-respect could have conducted a correspondence on a matter of business in terms of such dignified propriety as Murray employed in addressing Benjamin Disraeli after the collapse of the Representative.

Have you no self-respect?

Anxiety, suspicion, jealousy, and the worst ingredient of the latter, a sense of humiliation, had made wild work with his spirits, his temper, and indeed his appetite; yet twenty minutes in a dusky back drawing-room, a cup of weak tea and a slice of inferior bread-and-butter, were enough to restore self-respect, peace of mind, and vigour of digestion.

It is time that the North should learn that it has nothing left to compromise but the rest of its self-respect.

He knew that Alcatraz had stolen away the six mares, and Marianne explained briefly and eloquently how much the return of those mares meant to her self-respect and to the financial soundness of the ranch.

He represented the aggressive, offensive element among the white people of the New South, who made it hard for a negro to maintain his self-respect or to enjoy even the rights conceded to colored men by Southern laws.

Intellectual self-respect and all the qualities that are derived from that, may well go with any one of these three courses, decisively followed and consistently applied in framing a rule of life and a settled scheme of its aims and motives.

It ought to be essential to no one's self-respect that he cannot consent to live with people who do not think as he thinks.

It is difficult to retain one's self-respect before them,for no other reason than that one is, at the moment, absorbed into their individuality, and thinks and acts with them.

"He has endeavoured, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

That is all you would like to feel, Grizel, and because you feel something deeper and nobler you say you have lost your self-respect.

Although he had nothing particular for which to blame himself, yet the affair had increased his pride, while it lowered his self-respect; and he had an indistinct consciousness that the popularity in his form would do him as much harm as the change of feeling in his master.

We cover our heartlessness and indifference with fine phrases about sapping the independence of the poor and destroying their self-respect.

It is vanity in either case, and the vanity of self-respect is perhaps a more dangerous thing than the vanity of self-love, though you may call it pride if you like, or give it any other high-sounding title.

But curtly dismissing the fallacy, that the moral and spiritual faculties are likely to find a sound basis in a cowed and craven reason, we come to a form of fear that practically paralyzes independent thought more than any other, while it is incompatible with manliness and self-respect.

You must weave a little romance about it for the sake of your self-respect.