Respectable Quotes · Page 12

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

— Oscar Wilde

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I…

— Bertrand Russell

I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale…

— Lisa Kleypas

A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not…

— Wolfgang Smith

The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and…

— Aldous Huxley

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

— Jane Austen

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust…

— Anatole France

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

— Anonymous

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively…

— Caleb Carr

If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own…

— Sheri Holman

I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down…

— Gore Vidal

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make…

— Joseph de Maistre

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

— Ne-Yo

Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable…

— Sigmund Freud

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make…

— John Adams

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds…

— Julien Benda

..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...

— George Eliot

Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at…

— Starhawk

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died…

— Corrie Ten Boom

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple…

— Oskar Schlemmer

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved…

— Aravind Adiga

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet…

— James R Newman