Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.[Rien n’est plus méprisable que le respect fondé sur la crainte.]
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can’t get into it do that.[to Algernon]
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, get there is always a limit.
It is not titles that honor men, but men honor the titles.[Perché non i titoli illustrono gli uomini, ma gli uomini i titoli.]
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that’s the only way anybody else is going to.
I wrote without much effort, for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
