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Quotes About Respect

Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You are unmannerly,sharp-tounged, and show no respect for your betters,which is practically everyone given your lowly ravel birth." "I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines" -Kvothe
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor's garden. Don't tease the Bentons' sheep. Don't play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people's sacred tree.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Un hombre no debe ponerle nunca la mano encima a una mujer, salvo por amor.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No, no me molesta que me lo preguntes —repuso el anciano—. Siempre que a ti no te moleste que no te conteste.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Hasta el mejor de los perros muerde cuando se cansa de que lo maltraten.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He taught me more than all the others set end to end. If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You go rummaging around in other people's lives. You hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things. But you don't." He looked hard at the scribe. "When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No hace falta que os explique lo irritante que resulta intentar mantener una conversación con una persona que se niega a mirarte a los ojos." - Kvothe
~ Patrick Rothfuss
As my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The crickets, too, respect the silence. Their calls are like careful stitches in its fabric, almost too small to be seen.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Asking to hold a musician's instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man's wife. Nonmusicians don't understand. An instrument is like a companion and a lover.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I'd like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
And remember: speak least if you would be most often heard.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
So when I meet a woman, I should simply say, 'You are beautiful?'" Tempi shook his head. "No. You would say simply 'beautiful,' and let the woman decide the rest of what you mean.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Please, we're all friends here. Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You are not a goatherd. You are a student of the Lethani. My student. You should speak as a person of quality.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I nodded to her. "I bow to your wisdom, Vashet." "You bow to the fact that I am unarguably correct.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite." Hetera
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
~ Patrick Rothfuss