Respectable Quotes

269 quotes by 225 authors

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is… — Gertrude Stein
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Paul Claudel
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an… — Gay Talese
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No,… — Aldous Huxley
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won,… — Ida Tarbell
He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable. — Laozi
..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families... — George Eliot
If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters:… — Sheri Holman
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food — Guy de Maupassant
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a… — Aristotle
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. — Jean-Paul Sartre
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of… — Aldous Huxley
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. — P.G. Wodehouse
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… — Samuel Johnson
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose… — Lord Chesterfield
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. — Elbert Hubbard
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and… — Ian Fleming
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature. — Lin Yutang

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