Quotes About Respect

Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.

He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him.

Are you deaf as well as blind, woman? I'm not a carpet to walk over, and I distinctly heard myself speak. If I pinch your bottom, you can slap my face, but until I do, I expect a civil word for a civil word!

Min, you're a friend," he protested. "I don't think of you as a woman." It was the wrong thing to say; he knew it as soon as the words left his mouth.

There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.

What is the best method of appeasing an offended party? Would it not be to give some ground to them, acknowledge what they have done right?

I'm no lord. I've more respect for myself than that.

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.

Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.

As my Lord says, my Lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my Lord, for instructing me.

only a complete woolhead looked at a woman while with another.

Only a fool takes offense at customs different from her own.

I just want my father to be proud of me.

But I defied you!" "A Wise One cannot allow others to step upon her," Amys said. "If she comes into the shade of our sisterhood thinking like an apprentice, then she will never see herself as one of us.

Lead by example. Require strength, but first show it.

What kind of man wanted to bed a woman who was on a leash? (Mat Cauthon)

A man must know when to retreat from a woman," Bashere said to the air, "but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

When you were secure with what you were, there was no cause to resent being shown your place.

Honor didn't come from being punished, but accepting a punishment and bearing it restored honor. That was the soul of toh—the willing lowering of oneself in order to recover that which had been lost.

He handed Mandarb off to a groom, holding up a finger to the horse and meeting his dark, liquid eyes. "No more biting grooms," he growled at the stallion.

he had been raised to believe it was a man's place to die if necessary before a woman had to.

Far Dareis Mai carries my honor.

If you have no gratitude, have you no shame?

Some things just shouldn't be talked about, and I don't care if you will be letting that fool gleeman tell any kind of tale he wants. It isn't right or decent." "I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn't be talked about," Tam said