One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
