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Quotes About Respect

There is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Find ways to save face.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
You won't change her by making fun of her. You just hurt her feelings.
~ Doris Lessing
If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome!
~ Doris Lessing
Yes," said Willi, calmly. "You are an old nuisance. You can sit down if you like, but you must keep quiet and not talk nonsense." Maryrose turned quite white with fright and with pain on behalf of her mother. But Mrs Fowler, after a moment's silence, gave a short flustered laugh and sat down and kept perfectly quiet. And after that, if she came into the Gainsborough she always behaved with Willi like a well-brought-up small girl in the presence of a bullying father. And
~ Doris Lessing
M?i ng??i ??u ch? là k? ?n th?t ng??i n?u như không ?? cho nhau ???c yên.
~ Doris Lessing
A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
~ Doris Wild Helmering
And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
when two friends discuss money, the third friend should invariably be asleep.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Every other woman since Eve has asked to be loved more than honour. But not you.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Why are you here?" Silence. Then the boy said slowly, "Because I admire you.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I could not have done that. I fear nothing and no one. I respect nothing and no one. But I could not have done that.' 'You have done it,' Jerott said. 'It is easy to do it, out of hatred. But you are right. I know of no one else on earth who could have done it out of love.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Marthe said, her face streaked and silvered with tears, "I could not have done that. I fear nothing and no one. I respect nothing and no one. But I could not have done that." "You have done it," Jerott said. "It is easy to do it, out of hatred. But you are right. I know of no one else on earth who could have done it out of love.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He had admitted her to the sexless friendship she had asked of him. She had been treated at last as a partner and adult. She was free, as he had said, to join her invention to his; to expect and give co-operation without fear or favour, as might be done by Adam or Jerott or Danny.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
She said peevishly, 'Do you consider I'm old enough to stop calling you Mr Crawford?' 'No,' said Mr Crawford shortly. 'What alternatives would you suggest? Master? Uncle?' 'That would certainly unsettle the Maréchale, for one,' said Philippa more cheerfully.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
To the devil with your pearldrops and your parroty manners. A filled mind and an apt wit will earn you all the respect any man has the means to deserve.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The sea demands a man who knows the sea and respects it. A man who is prepared to be lonely. There is no isolation like that of the helm in a storm, except the isolation when it is windless.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Tact,' Lymond said, 'is the name you should have upon your tombstone.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another. It's a very real power, Harriet. Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person. That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said. All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it. But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Throw that dreary man Cicero out of the window, and request the divine Virgil (with the utmost love and respect) to take a seat along with his fellow-Augustans and the First Consul, until your pupils are ready to be ushered into the presence.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I have rather an unwholesome weakness for policemen.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Bother the right man!" cried Miss Findlater, crossly. "I do hate that kind of talk. It makes one feel dreadful—like a prize cow or something. Surely, we have got beyond that point of view in these days.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers