Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life. — George Sand Copy Share Image
When I wanna start a family, I want to raise a respectable boy who ain't a bitch but knows how to treat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human… — Helen Cam 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
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity. — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. — Howard Thurman 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
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello Copy Share Image
Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable,… — Peter Hollingworth Copy Share Image
The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots. — H. L. Mencken 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
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion,… — Albert Camus 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
![“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/837/george-orwell-57_begging_in-our-time-political-speech-and-writing_1334346.jpg)
