Deference Quotes
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— Simon Quellen Field
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
Great men always pay deference to greater.
— Walter Savage Landor
Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
— Ray Davies
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
— Moliere
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
— William Hazlitt
What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.
— Susan Collins
The glamourOf childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance ... — D.H. Lawrence
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The fear of man, the trust in man, the deference to the opinion of man, is the merest worship of a rag-stuffed idol.
— George MacDonald
He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.
— Wilkie Collins
Bastions of wealthare no deference for the man
who treads the grand altar of Justice
down and out of sight. — Aeschylus
They're here, though; not a creature failed,No blossom stayed away
In gentle deference to me,
The Queen of Calvary. — Emily Dickinson
First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.
— Virginia Woolf
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
— Karl Popper
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
— Warren E. Burger
Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
— Alexander Hamilton
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
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.
— James Woolsey
Out of deference to tradition I did wear a hat to church, weddings, ceremonial occasions, and when my head was cold.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Thank God, thank God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.
— Theodor Adorno
People who expect deference resent mere civility.
— Mason Cooley
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
— William Shenstone
Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can't do it any longer.
— Israelmore Ayivor
