Respectable Quotes
269 quotes by 230 authors
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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
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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
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Since when was genius found respectable?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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
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Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
— Kim Cattrall
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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
— Joan Chen
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How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
— Henry Adams
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
— Alexander Borodin
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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
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
— Anthony Trollope
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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
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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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