The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry. — Michael Novak 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
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself;… — Margaret Atwood 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 never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Indoors was his place and there he'd moulder, a respectable pillar of society who has never had the chance to misbehave.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne 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
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
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
I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less.… — Martin Jacques 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
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
