Quotes About Respect

It's laugh or cry, said Rigg. Cry then. Give the old man his due.

I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." "Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

He had momentarily forgotten that at a restaurant everyone is supposed to pretend there's an eight-foot wall around each table. Except the waiters, of course, who are supposed to pretend that each table is the only one they're waiting on. Like living in a small town. Notice me when I want to be noticed, but why are you prying when I want to be left alone?

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

From a friend you need to take crap. But I'm not your friend. I'm your father. And nobody needs to take crap from their father.

Conservar la dignidad y mostrar respeto donde es debido, para que la derrota no sea una deshonra.

Masters never are content with mere respect from their servants.

And they apologized again. Back to business. Back to respect. And Ender realized that in their laughter, in their friendship, it had not occurred to them that he could have been included.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. 

Hillel the Elder, author, in the first century before Christ, of the ethic of reciprocity: That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.

Watson-dijo-, si en alguna ocasión le parece que peco en exceso de confianza en mis facultades o que le presto menos atención de la que merece un caso, le ruego que me susurre al oído la palabra <>. Le quedaré infinitamente agradecido.

Senza Fermezza, il gentiluomo non riscuote rispetto ed il suo sapere non sarà ascoltato. | Preconizzando lealtà e fidatezza, non avrà amici che sono simili a se stesso. | Non esiterà a correggere i suoi errori

Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.