RESPECT in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from War and Peace 2 by Leo Tolstoy
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
 Current Search - respect in War and Peace 2
1  Whether it was from respect, envy, or anticipation, he did not know.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
2  The bigwigs, the most respected members of the club, beset the new arrivals.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
3  Dolokhov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
4  The general bowed his head respectfully, and the monarch mounted and rode down the street at a gallop.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
5  Most of those present were elderly, respected men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures and voices.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
6  Next he thought of that self-satisfied Bonaparte, with his small white hand, who was now an Emperor, liked and respected by Alexander.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
7  He did not know Arakcheev personally, had never seen him, and all he had heard of him inspired him with but little respect for the man.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV
8  And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and son.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II
9  Some of the most important old men were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully to hear the voices of well-known men.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
10  Pierre respected this class of Brothers to which the elder ones chiefly belonged, including, Pierre thought, Joseph Alexeevich himself, but he did not share their interests.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
11  Boris, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and then brought back to the general circle.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
12  Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and wearing the Cross of St. George, awarded to soldiers for bravery in action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing men was training a trotter of his own for a race.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II
13  Had Speranski sprung from the same class as himself and possessed the same breeding and traditions, Bolkonski would soon have discovered his weak, human, unheroic sides; but as it was, Speranski's strange and logical turn of mind inspired him with respect all the more because he did not quite understand him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI
14  Pierre during the last two years, as a result of his continual absorption in abstract interests and his sincere contempt for all else, had acquired in his wife's circle, which did not interest him, that air of unconcern, indifference, and benevolence toward all, which cannot be acquired artificially and therefore inspires involuntary respect.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX
15  Following this letter one of the masonic Brothers whom Pierre respected less than the others forced his way in to see him and, turning the conversation upon Pierre's matrimonial affairs, by way of fraternal advice expressed the opinion that his severity to his wife was wrong and that he was neglecting one of the first rules of Freemasonry by not forgiving the penitent.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII
16  Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful understanding of his employer's happiness.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
17  Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful understanding of his employer's happiness.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.