Respectable Quotes

269 quotes by 230 authors

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm… — Diana Trilling
OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host… — Joely Richardson
Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that… — Jhonen Vasquez
I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New… — Chris Ware
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. — Leslie Stephen
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell… — Diane Wakoski
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the… — Aravind Adiga
I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew… — Diana Gabaldon
My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I… — Hanif Kureishi
Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident… — Stacy Keibler
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance… — Peter Hollingworth
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. — Mary Augusta Ward
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to… — Christian Nestell Bovee
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. — Stephanie Mills
Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction. — Sacha Guitry
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable. — Max Muller
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence. — Wyndham Lewis
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more… — Richard Diebenkorn
There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office. — Will Rogers

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