Quotes About Respect

As for the family home, Tom dropped into the house on Seventeenth almost every day, walking in unannounced as if he still lived there. Even Debby told him she didn't think that was fair to Kay. "I wouldn't blame her for changing the locks," she said. "I own that house," Tom answered. "I can go there anytime I want.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

There are really only two commandments of Nanaville: love the grandchildren, and hold your tongue.

he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do

we have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.

Well, then, he said, I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.

I'll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.

I liked walking better, but a sense of reluctance to obtrude my presence on anyone who did not desire it, always kept me passive on these and similar occasions.

He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.

And indeed this was the best policy—for to submit and oblige was the governess's part, to consult their own pleasure was that of the pupils.

I would rather admire you from this distance, fair lady, than be the partner of your home.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

If she gives you her heart,' said I, 'you must take it thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.

Therefore, Mr. Fergus, if you choose to enter my house as a friend, I will make you welcome, but if not, I must confess, I would rather you kept away

George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

believed in carnal love. To us, a book's words were holy, but the paper, cloth, cardboard, glue, thread, and ink that contained them were a mere vessel, and it was no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated. Hard use was a sign not of disrespect but of intimacy.