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No Respect Quotes

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
- Muhammad Ali

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
- Christiane Amanpour

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight.
- Bob Anderson

The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges.
"What are you doing?" Ghastek asked.
"My hole puncher broke."
"You have no respect for the undead.
- Ilona Andrews

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?
- Joaquin Andujar

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
- Jane Austen

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
- Oscar Wilde

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
- George Bancroft

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbors more! He'd have to - you'd not grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself - no love, no respect!
- Mary Ann Shaffer

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
- L Frank Baum

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
- Rodney Dangerfield

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Rodney Dangerfield

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.
- John Steinbeck

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
- Carl Sandburg

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
- William Hazlitt

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.
- Robbie Coltrane

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
- Jon Fishman

Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority."
"Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.
- John Flanagan

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
- Nathan Bedford Forrest

Happiness is no respecter of persons.
- Stephen Fry

But happiness is no respecter of persons.
- Stephen Fry

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
- Edward Gibbon

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Do not feed that beggar. Hamlet, lie down." The dog ignored her.
"Down," Viktor ordered, his deep voice stern. The dog whined and then lay down. The prince looked at her. "You need to be more forceful."
"I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.
- Patricia Grasso

I have no respect to merchants and preachers; as far as I'm concerned, their only talent is coming up with the right word at the right time. What is a professional preacher, really? He is a kind of middleman who for the wrong reasons tries to make people buy his goods. The more he sells, the more his stock rises. The louder he hawks his wares, the larger his business grows.
- Knut Hamsun

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
- Joseph Heller

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
- Christopher Wren

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.
- Larry King

The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.
- E L Konigsburg

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
- Shia Labeouf

The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
- Don Mattingly

Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.
- O R Melling

I should go. Stewart's waitin' for me. Says he wants to teach me how to use a sword properly.' Riley hooted. 'Can I watch? This should be totally hilarious.' 'Ya've got no respect woman.' Beck retorted. After the door closed behind him she realized what he'd said. 'Woman?' He wasn't calling her girl any longer.
- Jana Oliver

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
- John Piper

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
- J B Priestley

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
- J B Priestley

Micro-regulation is micro-tyranny, a slithering, serpentine network of insinuating Ceaucescu and Kim Jon-Il mini-me's. It's time for the mass rejection of their diktats. A political order that subjects you to the caprices of faceless bureaucrats or crusading "judges" merits no respect. To counter the Bureau of Compliance, we need an Alliance of Non-Compliance to help once free people roll back the regulatory state.
- Mark Steyn

God is no respecter of either persons or names - Dieu or Gott or Kyrie or Adonai or Wakantanka. He is the Great Spirit whose pity we ask.
- S M Stirling

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia.
- Guillermo Del Toro

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