The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

   For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel14:14.

That long frontier fromthe Atlantic tothe Pacificoceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an exampleto everycountryand a pattern for the future of the world.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Address at the Canada Club, London, 20  Apr.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

-de Gaulle, Charles
  In the NewYork Times,12 May.

We shall never forget the mingled feelings of awe and respect with which we used to gaze on the exterior of Newgate in our schoolboy days†[the doors] looking as if they were made for the express purpose of letting people in, and never letting them out again.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Sketches by Boz,'Criminal Courts'.

O that faint word, respect ! how I disdain it!

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make every one wretched for 24 hours.

-James, Alice
  Diary entry,11 Dec.

I'm glad you like adverbsöI adore them; theyare the only qualifications I really much respect.

-James, Henry
  Letter to Miss M Bentham Edwards, 5  Jan, quoted in Percy Lubbock (ed)  The Letters of Henry  James (1920).

Fine clothes are good onlyas they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 27 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Maxima debetur puero reverentia, si quid turpe paras. If you are planning any misdeed, never forget that a child has a first claim on your respect.

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Satirae, no.14, l.47 (translated by Peter Green).

Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.

-Labouche'  re, Henry Du Pre¤
  In the Fortnightly Review, Feb.

   What perished in France in1830 was not respect for a dynasty, but respect for anything.

-Louis Philippe known as  the Citizen King
Of the Revolution which brought him to power. Quoted in A J P  Taylor From Napoleon to the Second International (1993).

It is increasingly rare for many of us†to believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves.Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.

-O'Connor, Cardinal JohnJoseph
  In Catholic NewYork, quoted in the NewYork Times, 24 Nov.

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

-O'Flaherty, Liam
'The Mermaid'.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Chronicles of Clovis,'Ministers of Grace'.

   or we may hold them in respect and affection as fellow creepers on a commodious planet saying,'Yes you too you too are people'.

-Sandburg, Carl
  On'the red men'.The People,Yes.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Pygmalion, Preface.

It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

-Stein, Gertrude
  On the first state lottery of1710. In theTatler, no.124, 24 Jan.

How Idid respect you whenyoudaredtospeak thetruth to me! Men don't know women, or they would be harder to them.

-Trollope, Anthony
  The Claverings, ch.15.

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens