Quotes About Respect

unfailing courtesy and willingness to be of service.

A todos ellos les faltaba aprender que pocas cosas merecen tanto respeto como la felicidad ajena.

An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

You mean, I suppose, that society here is not as brilliant? You're right, I daresay; but we belong here, and people should respect our ways when they come among us. Ellen Olenska especially: she came back to get away from the kind of life people lead in brilliant societies.

Sir Helmsley lo accusava di sottoporsi al lavoro solo per amore dell'avventura; ma, benché addolorato per la decisione presa dal figlio, lo rispettava per avervi tenuto fede. «Io stesso sono stato tutto un brillante fallimento», aveva borbottato alla fine della loro discussione; e Guy di rimando, ridendo: «Allora cercherò di essere un tetro successo».

Seems to me it all boils down to one thing. Was this fellow we're supposing about under any obligation to the other party - the one he was trying to buy the property from?' Ralph hesitated. 'Only the obligation recognized between decent men to deal with each other decently.' Mr. Spragg listened to this with the suffering air of a teacher compelled to simplify upon his simplest question.

Meanwhile the old Marquess, visibly moved, was charging Odo to respect his elders and superiors, while in the same breath warning him not to take up with the Frenchified notions of the court, but to remember that for a lad of his condition the chief virtues were a tight seat in the saddle, a quick hand on the sword and a slow tongue in counsel. Mind your own business, he concluded, and see that others mind theirs. The Marchioness thereupon, with many tears, hung a

Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

Indeed,' he said, tapping his fingers very rapidly on the desk. 'Indeed. I'm very pleased to know you, sir. Do me the honour of sitting down.' Blinking reproachfully at Fen, Cadogan obeyed, though as to what honour he could be doing Mr Rosseter in lowering his behind on to a leather chair he was not entirely clear.

Do keep these trees, keep all the wonderful scenery of this wonderful state unmarred by vandalism or the folly of man.

They never open their mouths," he complained of two House colleagues, "without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." Asked

When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can and cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think that it is wrong. We should hold the judiciary in all respect, but it is both absurd and degrading to make a fetish of a judge or of any one else.

No one respected them for their labor in a country where the idea of honorable poverty had vanished.

had taken place just before Grant's visit, and Wilhelm was unable to receive him. "Here is an old man," says Bismarck, — "one of the kindest old gentlemen in the world — and yet they must try and shoot him!

You know how to spell that? G-U-Z-M-A-N. Don't you go spelling my name wrong, or I'll have to mess you up.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

The youth of Andronicus had been without spirit, his age was without reverence:

He was sternly forbid to pitch his tents in a pleasant valley, lest he should infringe the distant awe that was due to the royal mansion.

Those that come to see me, do me honour; and those that stay away, do me a favour.

Don't rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices.

If I had my life again, I'd act differently. It's hard for a man if he thinks his wife doesn't respect him.