Quotes About Deference

Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.

the kind of man who referred to everyone he worked with as eminent.)

any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority. If you want your boss to do you a favor, you

One of power's invisible perquisites is that others grant you deference without your having to ask for it.

Give me the respect I deserve.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.

My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I always respect a woman.

But if you wish to obtain a husband, and surely all natural women must, then you will have to learn to master this intellectual and argumentative side of your nature. Men do not find it in the least attractive in a woman. It makes them uncomfortable. It is not restful and does not make a man feel at his ease or as if you give proper deference to his judgment. One does not wish to appear opinionated!

Ned never argued with their father, he was unfailingly polite and then nonchalantly went his own way; whereas, he, Edmund, deferred dutifully to his father's authority and then found himself resenting both his parent's austere discipline and his own reluctance to rebel.

No. I'll show proper deference . . . the day you train your horse to fly backwards around the castle's turrets.

With most rulers, he knew, the words 'whenever it is convenient for you' meant 'right now, and five minutes ago if you can make it'.

And when a lady's in the case,You know all other things give place.

A cat may look on a king.

Will pitched his voice low, a servant's deference, and hoped Salisbury's expansive mode continued, although he dreaded to learn the source of it.

Human, all of them, in deference to the waning moon but there was no way any of thm could be mistaken for anything but wolves.

A big day for the bootlickers to please the boss by going around to bow to him and shamelessly have a ball.

I have great respect for the authorities.

I have great respect for Lyoto Machida.

M. Richard bowed ... to nobody; bent his back ... before nobody; and walked backward ... before nobody ... And, a few steps behind him, M. Moncharmin did the same thing

Now you know who bows down to whom. - Emma

Public opinion is the test of this polity; the best opinion which with its existing habits of deference, the nation will accept: if the free government goes by that opinion, it is a good government of its species; if it contravenes that opinion, it is a bad one.