#ect

Know your own worth; and be worthy of knowing. ↗

— Melissa Leath

#respect

Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#grendel #humor #parody #respect

You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite. ↗

— Jane Austen

#respect

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment. ↗

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

#self-respect #respect

No, not 'Very well, Your Excellency', but simply 'Your Excellency'! I told you to watch your tone, Colonel! I also trust you will not be offended if I suggest you make a slight bow and at the same time incline your body forward, so as to indicate respect and also, as it were, readiness to dash off on an errand for him. I've been in the company of generals myself, so I know what I'm talking about ... So 'Your Excellency'. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#respect

A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignity and silence are not prior requisites to learning […] He would like, needs, and deserves for other people to stop trying to protect him and allow him the right to choose information for himself […] Most of all the teenager needs people in libraries to recognize and accept him as a respectable human being. ↗

— Anne Osborn

#respect

Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #respect #young-adult

The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#respect

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#respect

To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after attending an execution at the stake of their respective parents, 'so that they would have nothing to reproach one another with. ↗

— Robin Briggs

#tragedy #witch-hunts #respect