Respectable Man Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself…
— William P. Merrill
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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
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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
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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
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
— Jane Austen
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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
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I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
— Joseph de Maistre
Who Wrote These Respectable Man Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 8 Respectable Man Quotes as follows: