A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The” — Agatha Christie 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
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its… — William Bligh 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
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York… Everything there disappoints me but the crowd;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability. — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
