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
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
“More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
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
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen 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
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 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
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
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
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any… — Cynthia Ozick 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
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
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
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
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
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“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
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli 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
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
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
