People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world. — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by… — John Updike Copy Share Image
People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see… — Elizabeth Ashley Copy Share Image
Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless… — William P. Merrill Copy Share Image
The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business,… — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — 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
I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
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