Respectability Quotes

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the… — George Bernard Shaw
Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability. — Shelley Winters
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of… — Thomas Carlyle
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It… — Rajneesh
Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot… — Rajneesh
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is… — Colin Archibald Russell
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see… — Ralph Nader
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of… — Whitney M. Young
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as… — Christopher Hitchens
Users of clichÃ©s frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,… — Patrick Cockburn
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name,… — Henry David Thoreau
Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer,… — Studs Terkel
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which… — E. Stanley Jones
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in… — John O'Donohue
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability… — Edward Bates
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost… — Richard Halliburton
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going… — Richard Halliburton
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into… — Marguerite Young
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my… — Tom Hayden
We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and… — Philip Neri

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