Respectable Quotes · Page 4

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

— Anonymous

Friends who are truly acceptable to our hearts are fully respectable right from the day the friendship starts.

— Anuj Somany

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

— George Washington

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to…

— Lewis Carroll

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books…

— Kinky Friedman

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

— Louis D. Brandeis

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable…

— Samuel Butler

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

— Noam Chomsky

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few…

— Lord Chesterfield

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the…

— Hanif Kureishi

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but…

— George MacDonald

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that…

— Neil Gaiman

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding…

— Michelle Malkin

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A…

— Jules Renard

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but…

— Douglas Adams

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't…

— Rachilde

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the…

— Jon Meacham

Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any…

— Jerry Della Femina

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the…

— A.J. Ayer

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…

— H. L. Mencken

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

— Bertrand Russell

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

— H. L. Mencken

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

— Will Rogers

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

— Callan McAuliffe

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

— Karl Lagerfeld

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

— Carl Hart

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

— Anthony Trollope

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

— Paulo Coelho

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.

— Masaaki Hatsumi

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

— Julia Quinn

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

— Jane Austen

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be…

— Oscar Wilde

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

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

— Jane Austen

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

— Allan Bloom