Famous quotes containing the word esteem:
“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)
“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)
“It is hard to love those we do not truly esteem; but it is no less so to love those we esteem a great deal more than ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)