Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction. — Sacha Guitry Copy Share Image
The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress.… — Michelle Hunziker Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do… — Hector Hugh Munro 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
Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I would never rep Versace. I can't stand her. I think she makes disgusting clothes. Calvin [Klein] is like, snore! Who wears… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor 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
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster Copy Share Image
TV and film both attract me equally. In both, you do search for a role that would be enjoyable to do, that… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some… — Hermann Kolbe Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image