Quotes About Respect

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

They want more, they learn to make claims, the tribute of respect is at last felt to be well-nigh galling; rivalry for rights, indeed actual strife itself, would be preferred: in a word, woman is losing modesty. And let us immediately add that she is also losing taste. She is unlearning to fear man: but the woman who unlearns to fear sacrifices her most womanly instincts.

One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

He tolerates no other enemy than one in whom nothing is to be despised and a great deal is worthy of respect!

Equality before the enemy—first precondition for an honest duel.

What do you think most humane ?-To spare a person shame.

Our duties - are the rights of others over us.

when an exceptional person treats a mediocre one more delicately than he treats himself and his equals, this is not just courtesy of the heart—it is his duty

In disrespecting, we show that we still mantain a sense of respect.

Each tradition grows more venerable the farther its origin lies in the past, the more it is forgotten; the respect paid to the tradition accumulates from generation to generation; finally the origin becomes sacred and awakens awe.

He had a deep respect for life, a special compassion for animals, and great awe and reverence for nature's complexity and abundance. While a brilliant inventor and designer himself, he always thought that nature's ingenuity was vastly superior to human design. He felt that we would be wise to respect nature and learn from her.

One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge... It is too sacred to be profaned.

If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.

To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is "mine," like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a present of himself or herself.

To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is "mine," like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a present of himself or herself. What I possess I can no longer receive as a gift. You cannot receive a gift of ten dollars if you already have it in your pocket and you own it.

B?trâneÈ›ea este o stare indecent? care trebuie oprit? la timp.

Por el amor de Dios -murmuró Clotilde Armenta-. Déjenlo para después, aunque sea por respeto al señor obispo.

You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical," he went on. "I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream. -Lucien to Alice

He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.