Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw 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
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser. — Chuck Noll 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and… — Justine Larbalestier 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“It is common knowledge that a well-bred man should as far as possible have no face. That is to say, not so… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
