Esteem

Famous quotes containing the word esteem:

“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem—and in my esteem age is not estimable.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“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)