A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.” — Wilkie Collins 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
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 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
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
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful… — Albert Camus 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
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
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
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
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
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
Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams. — Mason Cooley 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
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. — D. H. Lawrence 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
