Respect Quotes

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. (Philip James Bailey, 1816-1902)

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect. (Cicero, 106-43 b.c.)

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. (Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924)

Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good; the unconscious acknowledgement of the superiority or excellence of others. (Tryon Edwards, 1809-1894)

Even a nod from a person who esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others. (Plutarch, 46-120)

He must be quite respectable. One has never heard his name before in the whole course of one's life, which speaks volumes for a man, nowadays. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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