Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. — D. H. Lawrence 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 is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and… — Edward Bates Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives. — Jeffrey Montgomery Copy Share Image
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn 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 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
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“Respectability politics is the dogged belief that if black people just shape up, dress right, and act right, racists would suddenly have… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about… — Kerry Thornley 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
INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial, arbitrary and fallacious; for, as… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image