Respectability Quotes

Respectability Quote of the day

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

Respectability offends my taste.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.