Quotes About Respect

Let the poor man mind his tongue

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Hello, Doctor. It's your man.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.