I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.

W. Somerset Maugham
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  1. You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected. - Lorii Myers

  2. You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you. - Stephen Richards

  3. Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison. - Orson Scott Card

  4. In silence you shall face self...and have respect. - T.F. Hodge

  5. Respect, reverence, self-esteem Are my basic requisites I refuse to be a competitor Who struggles for personal rights - Balroop Singh

More Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham
  1. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

  2. How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

  3. As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  4. He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

  5. If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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