Respectable Quotes

269 quotes by 230 authors

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't… — Alexis Arguello
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe… — Robert Bork
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis
Since when was genius found respectable? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out. — Kim Cattrall
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. — Joan Chen
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that… — John Quincy Adams
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them. — E. W. Howe
My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly… — Arthur Conan Doyle
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all… — Oskar Schlemmer
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. — Henry Adams
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do. — Oscar Wilde
Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. — John le Carre
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. — Alexander Borodin
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… — Benjamin Franklin
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me… — Charles Darwin

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