Quotes About Respect

In this artistic world, you might as well find a way to work with somebody that you have admiration for.

I wouldn't say I'm better than Ashley Cole but I would like to think I am up there with him.

Like evil, good is contagious. Therefore when Madame de la Chanterie's lodger had lived in that old and silent house for some months after the worthy Alain's last confidence, which gave him the deepest respect for the religious lives of those among whom his was cast, he experienced that well-being of the soul which comes of a regulated existence, gentle customs, and harmony of nature in those who surround us.

She put all her pride and self-love into making him superior to herself, and not in ruling him. Hearts without tenderness covet dominion, but a true love treasures abnegation, that virtue of strength.

Be not too confiding, nor frivolous, nor over enthusiastic, —three rocks on which youth often strikes. Too confiding a nature loses respect, frivolity brings contempt, and others take advantage of excessive enthusiasm.

The police!" he cried; "one may say of it, as Basile said of calumny to Batholo, 'The police, monsieur! you don't know what you despise!' And, after all," he continued, after a pause, "who are they who despise it? Imbeciles, who don't know any better than to insult their protectors. Suppress the police, and you destroy civilization. Do the police ask for the respect of such people?

David empfand die schrecklichste aller Demütigungen. Er verlor die Achtung vor seinem Vater. ~ Verlorene Illusionen

The common herd of humanity feels an involuntary respect for any person who can rise above it, and is not over-particular as to the means by which they rise.

Any one who molests Father Goriot will have henceforward to reckon with me," said Eugene, looking at the old man's neighbor; "he is worth all the rest of us put together.

Pretendo l'ospitalità degli Arabi. Devo esservi sacro; altrimenti, aprite e andrò incontro alla morte.

Journalism may say or suppose anything, and our dignity forbids us even to reply.

It is very humiliating to ask," remarked Philippe; "I would rather see you taking as I do, without a word; it shows more confidence. In the army, if a comrade dies, and has a good pair of boots, and you have a bad pair, you change, that's all." "Yes, but you don't take them while he is living.

He felt in his heart a sort of remorse which bid him respect a creature that had done him no harm.

Every one esteemed Pons with his kindness and his modesty, his great self-respect and respect for others; for a pure and limpid life wins something like admiration from the worst nature in every social sphere, and in Paris a fair virtue meets with something of the success of a large diamond, so great a rarity it is. No actor, no dancer however brazen, would have indulged in the mildest practical joke at the expense of either Pons or Schmucke.

A lover speaks of nothing to a woman but that which exalts her; while a husband, although he may be a loving one, can never refrain from giving advice which always has the appearance of reprimand.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

The most important ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with other people.

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.