Quotes About Respect

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian

I never talk during music--at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.

Robert, men can love what is beneath them—things unworthy, stained, dishonoured.  We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship, we lose everything. 

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live: and unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them.

Manners before morals!

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I hate people who are not serious about meals.  It is so shallow of them.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being.

Cuando quiero a alguien de verdad, no me gusta decir su nombre a nadie. Es como ceder una parte de él.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. 

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength. People can be killed for poetry here—a sign of unparalleled respect—because they are still capable of living by it.

Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?