I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. — D. H. Lawrence 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
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. — Patrick deWitt 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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran 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
“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
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
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
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
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
