Quotes About Respect

This is my new guiding principle: Find a man of quality. Not a man who excites me but one who values me. Not a man who takes me to the moon and then vanishes off to New York but one who takes me to…Bracknell, maybe.

The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you'll hear it.

What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?

If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it.

Top tip to all teachers reading this (i.e., none, probably): try not showing off the girl who cringes when anyone even looks at her. Because it's not that helpful. Also, it's not that helpful to say in the whole class's earshot: "She's the great hope of this year group, so talented.

It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that'.

Family bloody first. I'm not saying Dad was wrong, I'll never say that, but maybe I'm starting to see "family"differently. It's not just the people you share genes with; it's the people you share loyalty and friendship and respect with. It's the people you love.

Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.

But they can't just "get rid" of people! Their

You can take a guy to a coffee shop, but you can't make him bare his soul.

Husbands should not memorize conversations, word for word. It's against the whole spirit of marriage.

I'll find out afterward. If Suze tells me. Which she may not. Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything. (Except, I really, really hope she tells me.)

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.

There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

Both noun (eusebia) and verb (sebizo) derive from the Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship. Everything related to this root has fear in it.

for I owe a longer allegiance to the dead than to the living:

I need one food: I must not violate Elektra

I owe more to the dead, with whom I will spend a much longer time, than I will ever owe to the living.

Who could behold his greatness without envy?

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.

Are you quite finished? It's your turn to listen for just as long as you've ... instructed me. Hear me out, then judge me on the facts.

Woman is the conscience of man.