Respectability Quotes

70 quotes by 57 authors

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability. — Benjamin Disraeli
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is… — George Bernard Shaw
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians… — Jodi Kantor
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen
'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives. — Jeffrey Montgomery
Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. — Ambrose Bierce
I look at myself like that goon. The first goon ever to have a baby pink shirt and that respectability. — Lil B
By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the… — Henry Ward Beecher
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would… — Henry David Thoreau

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