Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

- Henry IV of England

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

- William Godwin

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

- Thomas Merton

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

- Sextus Propertius

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

- Sophocles

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

- Pauline Kael

Above all things, reverence yourself.

- Pythagoras

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

- Lev Grossman

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

- Ignatius of Antioch

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

- Albert Schweitzer

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

- Estelle Parsons

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

- Eric Hoffer

Reverence is fatal to literature.

- E. M. Forster

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

- Desiderius Erasmus

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

- Aristotle

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

- Albert Schweitzer

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

- Albert Schweitzer