I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.