Quotes About Respect

When you see a woman in silks and sables and diamonds speak to a little errand girl or a footman or a scullery maid as though they were the dirt under her feet, you may be sure of one thing; she hasn't come a very long way from the ground herself.

Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

As Winston Churchill said, "Dogs look up to you, Cats look down on you." It's just that I discovered that being looked at from both of those perspectives is where I want to be.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, i'll be nice to you. Simple as that!

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

He lifted his hands and cupped her face. "You might have the courage of a man, Bethany, but you must be taught you are a woman. And I can...and will...mean more to you than anyone else ever could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

he had discovered some astonishing things. It was possible for Vere Ashleigh to find friendship with the type of man he had formerly disliked; it was possible to earn the respect and camaraderie of such men by being himself. An imposter they would not tolerate; a producer of life-like pen-portraits they had taken to their hearts.

But seriously, Gracie. You can't let people walk all over you. They're just people. What right do they have?

He's entitled not to love me, but he's not entitled to mess with my happy place.

Pardon me, madam, if I have little respect for honor. I think it's only a euphemism for double standard and hypocrisy. - Clay Sutherland

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

La liberté ne dispense pas du tact.

questo male è necessario per rendere nuovo e vivo il vostro affetto; esso è cento volte più rispettoso e amorevole della mancanza di rispetto che implica l'essere concilianti ad ogni costo.

He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

When a man dies they fetch him with a stretcher, just as he came in; only he enters with a blanket over him, and a flag covers him as he goes out. When he came in he was one of a convoy, but every man who can stand rises to his feet as he goes out. Then they play him to his funeral, to a grass mound at the back of the hospital.