Quotes About Respect

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

Indian saying in Saskatchewan

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.

A cat may look at a king.

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

And say to all the world, "This was a man!"

The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.