Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out,… — Horace 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
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and… — Paul Broca 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
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married. — Mary Heaton Vorse 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
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet… — Ntozake Shange 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
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A… — Jules Renard 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
While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the… — Frederic Bastiat 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
If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
