I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.
The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.
[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom
You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own;. . . This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
People who expect deference resent mere civility.
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
