Respectable Quotes
Respectable Quote of the day
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable.
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.
Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
