Respectability Quotes
70 quotes by 57 authors
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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
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Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
— Shelley Winters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,…
— Patrick Cockburn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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