Compliment Quote by William Shenstone

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

— Anonymous

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

— William Shenstone

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy…

— William Shenstone

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order…

— William Shenstone

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

— William Shenstone

“It appeared that the deference which, on my grandmother’s authority, we owed to Mme. de Villeparisis imposed on her the reciprocal obligation to do…

— Marcel Proust

Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure…

— Jean Dubuffet

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none…

— Wilkie Collins

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good…

— Chester A. Arthur