Quotes About Respect

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Equals make the best friends.

Little liberties are great offenses.

A man should either not converse with kings at all, or say what is agreeable to them.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

The more honor, the more danger.

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

Living by yourself is better than living with a bad woman.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.

You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.

Servants must be treated with the utmost courtesy. They are doing skilled work which you could not possibly do yourself without long training. And remember they cannot answer back. You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.

One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.

Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune—then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.

No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject.

At first, I was polite. Really. I said "excuse me," I tried to squeeze through gaps, even apologized for stepping on some toes. What can I say, I'm Canadian.

A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. They permit themselves an expression of face that on other occasions they would not allow.

Marriage is an extraordinary thing—and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.

When it is a question of an irate middle-aged lady, there is only one thing to be done - listen to her.