Respectability Quotes

70 quotes by 57 authors

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread… — Henry Ward Beecher
My life has been one long descent into respectability. — Mandy Rice-Davies
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives… — Benjamin F. Wade
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and… — William Bligh
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! â€” ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then… — Walt Whitman
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. — Oscar Wilde
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and… — William Blake
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. — Marshall McLuhan
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and… — Samuel Johnson
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as… — Samuel Johnson
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. — Samuel Johnson
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. — Mason Cooley
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature. — Lin Yutang
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. — E. Stanley Jones
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than… — Murray Kempton
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. — Kenneth Lee Pike

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