Quotes About Deference

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn't care about,

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.

I didn't realize," she said in a voice so polite it drew blood, "that fawning over you was part of the job requirement.

Differance brings together the two notions of differing and deferring.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

I nodded to her. "I bow to your wisdom, Vashet." "You bow to the fact that I am unarguably correct.

the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.