Quotes by Deference 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. Jane Austen deference disgusted thinking People who expect deference resent mere civility. Mason Cooley deference civility people The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom. Mencius deference feelings Deference and intimacy live far apart. Moliere deference wooing intimacy Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. Nicolas Chamfort deference esteem merit Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. William Shenstone deference indirect compliment A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say. William Shenstone deference gains silence You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. Willis Lamb deference affair advice