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Respectability Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- 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…
- Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
More Respectability Quotes
- In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open… — E. Stanley Jones
- Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want… — Ralph Nader
- The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher
- In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. — E. Stanley Jones
- The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — 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… — Thomas Carlyle
- For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh