Esteem

Famous quotes containing the word esteem:

“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; ‘tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“We confess our faults that our sincerity might repair the harm those faults themselves have done us in the esteem of others.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)