Respectable Quotes · Page 13

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your…

— R. Lee Ermey

While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of…

— Adolf Hitler

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

— Guy de Maupassant

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

— H. L. Mencken

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

— Thomas Carlyle

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the…

— H. L. Mencken

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a…

— John le Carre

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

— Joan Chen

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than…

— Larry Lujack

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one…

— Benjamin Franklin

We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the…

— William Howard Taft

I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written.…

— Diana Gabaldon

If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

— Jean Rhys

At the moment I would like to emphasize the need for vocational training, for non-formal education in Burma to help all those…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

— Richard Diebenkorn

One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project…

— Gilbert F. White

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

— George Sand

It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable…

— George Washington

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

— Anonymous

If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear…

— Albert J. Nock

By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a…

— Claudia Roth Pierpont

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

— Hunter S. Thompson

From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker