Quotes About Respect

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of the way and let younger folks live more expediently.

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.