Quotes About Respect

Money was the only measure of worth, for everyone, they got no respect as mothers.

take your time, leave mine alone

Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women?

A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!

The opposite of 'mean' is 'doormat

Vicky didn't say anything for a moment. "Red Cliff Canyon is a sacred area," she said.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work

There is no respect for hidden music

Todas queremos que nuestro enamorado sea amado por una mujer digna de él, pero jamás que sea más digna que nosotras. —Habladme de esta casa —dije—.

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled.   On

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business - Rhett Butler

She could never respect a man who let her run over him...

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

You need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Scarlett permitted the embrace - because in the dark smoke- fill the kitchen, there had been born a greater respect for her sister in law, a closer feeling of comradeship.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

There will never again be men like them, said Carreen softly. No one can take their places.

A gentleman always appeared to believe a lady even when he knew she was lying. That was Southern chivalry. A gentleman always obeyed the rules and said the correct things and made life easier for a lady.

It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about. It made a girl feel positively undressed.

You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate," Ellen told her daughter. "You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.