Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability. — Susan Moody Copy Share Image
I will continue doing films till my last breathe and will regain my respectability in the industry. — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes,… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and… — Colin Archibald Russell Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
Unless a person decides that 'Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image