“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Courts have paid a lot of deference to post-secondary institutions if they've done their work properly. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you;… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
“It appeared that the deference which, on my grandmother’s authority, we owed to Mme. de Villeparisis imposed on her the reciprocal obligation… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
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