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Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.

Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Since when was genius found respectable?

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Men are respectable only as they respect.