Respectable Quotes

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not… — William Ellery Channing
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul — Karl Lagerfeld
Men are respectable only as they respect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're not a-" She… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable… — Lewis Carroll
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All… — Caleb Carr
We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always… — John Marsden
Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally,… — Rajneesh
Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Good organization,â€ said Magnus. â€œI knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.â€ Alec made an ugly… — Cassandra Clare
I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning,… — Wilkie Collins
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would… — Jane Austen
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo
People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women. — Julia Quinn
Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a… — Richelle Mead
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows… — Ayn Rand
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding… — Margaret Atwood
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten… — George Orwell
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin. — A A Milne

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