Quotes About Respect

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.